Charleston South Carolina. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston South Carolina. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter
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A beacon stands on the parapet of Fort Sumter, the brick fortress in Charleston Harbor where the Civil War opened with the Confederate bombardment in April 1861. This 1865 view survives as two glass negatives that form a stereograph, meant to be seen through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The photographer is attributed to James F. Gibson, and the wet collodion process he used required plates to be exposed and developed quickly, before the coating dried. By the time the picture was made, Union forces had reclaimed the fort after Charleston was evacuated, so the image shows the site as the war was ending.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Sumter Interior view. Photographers name attributed in Civil War caption books. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. Beacon at Ft. Sumter. 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 | 4,473 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52595 |
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