Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior of Fort Putnam on Morris Island show – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior of Fort Putnam on Morris Island show in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior of Fort Putnam on Morris Island show
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Fort Putnam on Morris Island was one of the Union batteries that bombarded Fort Sumter during the long siege of Charleston, and this stereograph shows the guns inside its earthworks. The caption credits them with firing more than 1,200 shots into Sumter. Made in 1865 as the war was winding down, the view survives as a stereo pair of wet collodion glass plates, so the two slightly offset images create depth when seen through a stereoscope. The photographer is attributed to James F. Gibson, born in 1828.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Morris Island S.C. Interior of Ft. Putnam guns which fired over 1200 shots into Sumter. Photographers name attributed in Civil War caption books. 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 | 4,439 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52589 |
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