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Charleston S.C. City Hall (80 Broad Street) – Vintage Photo Print

Charleston S.C. City Hall (80 Broad Street), 1865 — historic photograph
Charleston S.C. City Hall (80 Broad 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Charleston S.C. City Hall (80 Broad Street). An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Charleston S.C. City Hall (80 Broad Street)

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The city hall at 80 Broad Street appears here in a stereograph pair from 1865, a building that stood at the center of a city that had been the scene of the war's opening. Charleston was where the conflict began with the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, and by early 1865 Union forces had occupied the city after Confederate troops withdrew. Made as a wet collodion glass negative and issued by the E. & H.T. Anthony firm, the two images were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gave home audiences a sense of depth and presence in a place they had read about in the newspapers.

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. 0632 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. City & town halls.United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,354 × 1,360 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46459

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