Charleston South Carolina. Light house of Fort Sumter – 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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This historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina. Light house of Fort Sumter brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston South Carolina. Light house of Fort Sumter
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The view centers on the lighthouse at Fort Sumter, the brick fort in Charleston Harbor where the Civil War opened with the Confederate bombardment in April 1861. By 1865, after Union forces had taken the city, the harbor and its fortifications had become a place of ruin and occupation, and photographers recorded them for public interest. This picture survives as a stereograph, a pair of images meant to be seen together through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. It was made with the wet collodion process on glass, and the record notes an earlier attribution to Alexander Gardner, a photographer whose name is often linked to Civil War views.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. 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 | 4,890 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47676 |
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