Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Johnson. (Morris Island – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Johnson. (Morris Island. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Johnson. (Morris Island
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A pair of glass plates makes this view a stereograph, so the two halves show the same interior from slightly different positions and would have been viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. Fort Johnson was a Confederate work in Charleston Harbor, and its batteries took part in the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861. By 1865, Charleston had been evacuated and Union forces were moving through the area, so photographers working there recorded fortifications abandoned or taken over during the war's final months. The caption places the fort on Morris Island, and the picture was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though later cataloging has questioned that attribution.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior view of Fort Johnson Morris Island 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 | 5,072 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47645 |
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