Charleston South Carolina. Officers of Treasury agents and Quartermaster – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina. Officers of Treasury agents and Quartermaster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina. Officers of Treasury agents and Quartermaster
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This stereograph shows the offices of a Treasury agent and a Quartermaster in Charleston, South Carolina, photographed in 1865, when Union forces controlled the city after Confederate troops withdrew in February. Treasury agents in occupied Southern ports oversaw abandoned and confiscated property, while Quartermaster officers supplied the Union army stationed there, so the building was a working center of wartime administration rather than a battlefield. Paired views like this were meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which fused the two plates into a single image with depth. The negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is now questioned.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Offices of Treasury agent and Quartermaster Charleston 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 | 5,120 × 5,087 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47678 |
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