Charleston South Carolina. Ruins of north Eastern Railroad depot – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Charleston South Carolina. Ruins of north Eastern Railroad depot comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina. Ruins of north Eastern Railroad depot
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Few views from Charleston in 1865 show the aftermath of the city's evacuation as directly as this pair of glass plates. The caption on the original negative sleeve identifies the ruins as those of the Northeastern Railroad depot, where it says about 200 people were killed when the building was blown up on the day the Confederates left the city in February 1865. The figure comes from that caption and is not confirmed elsewhere, so treat it with caution. The image was made as a stereograph, two side-by-side exposures meant to be viewed together for depth, and it was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a photographer who documented the war for much of the period.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Ruins of Northeastern R.R. depot whre 200 persons were blown up on the day of the evacuation. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,066 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47688 |
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