Charleston South Carolina. Photographer Samuel Cooley on parapet of Fort Sumter pho – Historic Photograph 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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A window into the past: Charleston South Carolina. Photographer Samuel Cooley on parapet of Fort Sumter pho, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina. Photographer Samuel Cooley on parapet of Fort Sumter pho
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This stereograph shows a photographer standing on the parapet of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, the masonry fort where the Civil War opened in April 1861. By 1865 the fort had been battered by years of Union bombardment, and Union forces had reclaimed it in February of that year as Confederate troops left Charleston. The image is a wet collodion glass negative made as a pair of plates, which were viewed through a stereoscope to create a three-dimensional effect. Its rubble-strewn ramparts show how much damage the harbor fortifications had taken during the war.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Sumter Photographer at Fort Sumter. 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 | 4,414 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52612 |
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