Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Big gun on Morris Island – Historic 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 historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Big gun on Morris Island brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Big gun on Morris Island
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The gun on Morris Island, captioned on its negative sleeve as the Swamp Angel with a question mark beside the name, sets this view apart from other Charleston pictures. That piece was a Union siege gun placed in the marshes in 1863 to shell the city, and it burst after a short firing run that August. The image is a stereograph pair, two glass plates meant to be viewed together for a sense of depth, and it was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a photographer whose name is often linked to wartime views of the South. It shows how the siege was fought as much through engineering in mud and sand as through open battle.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: The Swamp Angel [?]. Annotation from negative image side: 3517. 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 | 4,716 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47632 |
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