Savannah Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Savannah Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Savannah Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River
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This stereograph pair shows Fort McAllister, a Confederate earthwork on the Ogeechee River south of Savannah, Georgia. Its two glass plates, one for each eye, were made in 1864 by David B. Woodbury, who worked with wet collodion, a process that required the plates to be coated and exposed before they dried. The fort guarded the river approach to Savannah, and Union forces captured it in December 1864, opening a supply route from the sea to Sherman's army after its march through Georgia. Viewed through a stereoscope, the pair gives a sense of the fort's depth and the ground around it.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Fort McAllister Ga. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,038 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51043 |
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