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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Friday, February 12, 2016

A Group of Women and Children Posing in Front of the Confederate Torpedo Boat CSS David in Charleston, South Carolina (1864)


A group of women and children posing in front of the Confederate torpedo boat CSS David in Charleston, South Carolina, 1864. By George S. Cook. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

A Large Group of African American Slaves Posing Outside of Their Quarters on a Plantation Near Charleston, South Carolina (1860)


A large group of African American slaves posing outside of their quarters on a plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, c. 1860. A rare scene from perhaps the only series of photographs to document slavery in the United States. By Osborn and Durbec. Animated stereoview.

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Saturday, July 11, 2015

View of Meeting Street in Front of the Charleston Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina (1863)


View of Meeting Street in front of the Charleston Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, 1863. A rare street scene taken while the city was still under Confederate control. By George S. Cook.

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Time-Lapse View of Union Soldiers Posing With the Wreckage of the Swamp Angel on Morris Island, South Carolina (1863)


Close-up view of the barrel of the 8-inch Parrot gun and the Union soldiers playing cards,

Time-lapse view of Union soldiers posing with the wreckage of the Swamp Angel, a gun emplacement for an 8-inch Parrot gun which was built in swampland on Morris Island, 1863. It fired incendiary shells into downtown Charleston, a distant 4.5 miles away, until it burst during its 36th shot on August 23, 1863. Two of the soldiers near the barrel of the Parrot gun are playing a card game. By Haas and Peale.

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Thursday, December 11, 2014

"The Imperialized Confederate." Carte De Visite Portrait of a Confederate Soldier Thought to be Photographed Somewhere in Charleston, Possibly Fort Sumter (1861)


"The Imperialized Confederate." Carte de visite portrait of a Confederate soldier wearing a top hat and holding a bottle of alcohol thought to be photographed somewhere in Charleston, possibly Fort Sumter, in the early days of the Civil War, c. 1861.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Animated Stereoview of Vulcan Iron Works in Charleston, South Carolina (1865)


Animated stereoview of Vulcan Iron Works showing a number of wagons and wagon parts in the street in front of it in Charleston, South Carolina, c. 1865. Taken by George Stacy.


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Monday, September 15, 2014

African Americans Attending Church Service in Charleston, South Carolina


African Americans attending a service in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, c. 1860. By Osborn and Durbec. Animated stereoview.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Changing of the Guard in Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina (1865)


Union soldiers during a changing of the guard ceremony in Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina, 1865. By Samuel A. Cooley. Animated stereoscopic photograph.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Confederate Soldiers Posing With Cannons and Rubble in the Interior of Fort Sumter (1861)



"Salient with North-west Casemates, Fort Sumter." A group of Confederate soldiers posing with cannons and rubble in the interior of Fort Sumter shortly after its surrender by Union forces, April 1861. A rare example of a stereoscopic image taken of non-POW Confederates in the field. The second photograph is a CDV version that is much sharper in its details. By Osborn & Durbec.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Battery Chatfield on Morris Island


Union soldiers posing with an artillery piece in Battery Chatfield on Morris Island, Charleston, 1864. By Sam A. Cooley.

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