Charleston South Carolina. Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar; another view – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Charleston South Carolina. Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar; another view, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston South Carolina. Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar; another view
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Few buildings in Charleston show the damage of the war as plainly as the Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar, whose walls stand open to the sky in this view. The cathedral was gutted by the great fire that swept the city in December 1861, and the ruins were still standing when photographer James F. Gibson recorded them in 1865, as Union forces occupied the city and the war was ending. The picture survives as a stereograph pair, two glass negatives made to be seen together through a viewer for a three-dimensional effect. Its wet collodion process required the plates to be coated and exposed while still damp.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Ruins of Catholic Church Charleston S.C. 1865. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,434 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52597 |
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