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Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C.--The building on the left is where the first shell struck the city – Antique Photo Print

Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C.--The building on the left is where the first shell struck the city, [photographed 1863 April, printed later] — historic photograph
Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C.--The building on the left is where the first shell struck the city, [photographed 1863 April, printed later]. Historic photograph from the Charleston collection.

(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: Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C.--The building on the left is where the first shell struck the city, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C.--The building on the left is where the first shell struck the city

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The building on the left is the detail that sets this view apart: the caption identifies it as the place where the first shell struck the city. The street is Vendue Range, a waterfront row named for the vendues, or public auctions, once held there. Charleston was a Confederate port under Union blockade and attack during the Civil War, and this 1863 stereograph, part of the Brady-Handy collection, records the damage that bombardment brought to the city's streets. Stereo cards like this were sold to a public eager for images of the war.

Created / published[photographed 1863 April, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1860-1910.Stereographs 1860-1910.
NotesCivil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 3070. Original neg. Brady-Handy Collection.
SubjectsWar damage--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. Streets--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage--Union.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,265 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161959

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