Charleston S.C. The Citadel seen across Marion Square – 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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Step back in time with Charleston S.C. The Citadel seen across Marion Square, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston S.C. The Citadel seen across Marion Square
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This stereograph shows The Citadel, the South Carolina military college, as seen across Marion Square in Charleston. Its pairing of two glass plates gave viewers a three-dimensional view when seen through a stereoscope, a popular parlor format in the 1860s. The picture was published by E. & H.T. Anthony, one of the leading American makers of such views. Taken in 1865, the year Union forces occupied Charleston after the Confederate evacuation, it records a city and its military institution at the end of the war.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : 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. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Forts & fortifications.United States--South Carolina--Charleston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,282 × 1,364 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46489 |
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