Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Moultrie. (Sullivans Is – 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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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Moultrie. (Sullivans Is
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A stereograph pair of the interior of Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina, this picture survives as two side-by-side glass plates that give the scene depth when viewed through a stereoscope. The fort had guarded the harbor since the Revolutionary War, and by 1865 it stood in a region the Civil War had reshaped, as Charleston's defenses were abandoned and Union forces moved in. The wet collodion process used for these plates was the standard method of the period, and the record notes that the photographer was once thought to be Alexander Gardner, an attribution that has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior view of Fort Moultrie S.C. 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 | 5,067 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47649 |
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