Fort Fisher N.C. Interior view – Historic Photograph 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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A window into the past: Fort Fisher N.C. Interior view, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Fort Fisher N.C. Interior view
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Fort Fisher, guarding the approach to Wilmington, North Carolina, was the largest earthwork fortification in the Confederacy and the last major port the Union had to take to close off blockade running. This stereograph, made as a wet collodion glass negative in 1865, shows the fort's interior after the Union assault of January 1865, when a combined naval and army force finally overran its land face. Stereographs like this were sold in pairs to be viewed through a stereoscope, giving the ruined ramparts and their weight and depth to viewers at home.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0667 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Fort Fisher (N.C.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Forts & fortifications.United States--North Carolina--Fort Fisher. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,342 × 1,366 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46667 |
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