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Charleston S.C. The Charleston Hotel (200 Meeting Street) – Antique Photo Print

Charleston S.C. The Charleston Hotel (200 Meeting Street), 1865 — historic photograph
Charleston S.C. The Charleston Hotel (200 Meeting Street), 1865. 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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This historic photograph of Charleston S.C. The Charleston Hotel (200 Meeting Street) brings a moment of history to your wall. 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 Charleston Hotel (200 Meeting Street)

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Charleston's Charleston Hotel, at 200 Meeting Street, is the subject here, shown as a stereograph pair: two side-by-side glass plates that viewed through a stereoscope gave a sense of depth. The photograph dates to 1865, the year Union forces took the city after Confederate troops evacuated it in February. Firms such as E. & H.T. Anthony issued stereographs like this one for a broad public eager to see the war's places and aftermath. The wet collodion process used for the negative required photographers to coat and expose each plate quickly, so the image also reflects the technical limits of the period.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0648 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Hotels.United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,328 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46488

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