Morris Island S.C. Ordnance depot – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Morris Island S.C. Ordnance depot in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Morris Island S.C. Ordnance depot
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This stereograph shows an ordnance depot on Morris Island, the barrier island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, in 1865. Union forces had seized much of the island in 1863 after a costly assault on Fort Wagner, and by the end of the war it served as a supply base for the Federal campaign against Charleston. The image survives as a pair of glass wet-collodion negatives, which the publisher E. & H.T. Anthony issued as a stereo card to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0594 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865.United States--South Carolina--Morris Island. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,248 × 1,336 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46503 |
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