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Stereoscopic views of Charleston, South Carolina

Title: Stereoscopic views of Charleston, South Carolina [graphic].
Publication: 1860?-1903?

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Description

97 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, b&w; 88 x 177 mm. or smaller.
19 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, b&w ;

Summary

Views of Charleston: general and street views, including views from balconies and a view of a trolley; views of war damage and sites, including the Battery, Vendue Range where the "first shell struck," ruins of the Circular Church including burying ground, and Institute or "Secession" Hall; the Battery: East Battery from a balcony with chair and table in foreground, African American boys with baskets, homes beyond, bathing house and the Battery, the Jasper Monument; shipping, including views of ships off the battery, at dock, including the steamer "Planter" loaded with barrels, view of cotton on a wharf; churches: St. Michaels, including interior view, Lutheran, Unitarian; homes; Charleston Hotel; Roper Hospital; the Citadel; Customs house; Post Office; gardens, palmetto trees, a tea rose; men in a buggy in front of the Charleston water works; Magnolia Cemetery: African American man sitting beneath oaks, lake, chapel, Infantry monument; sculpture of John C. Calhoun by Hiram Powers in city hall [later removed to Columbia and destroyed when Sherman entered the city].
Group portraits made in or near Charleston: Euro-American group in yard and garden; African Americans: women and girls, "Oyster and Fish women," with baskets balanced on their heads; women in the cotton warehouse, working on drying cotton; group "gossiping at the gate"; African American with with ox cart loaded with Euro-American children, small houses beyond; African Americans men and women at work in in sweet potato field.

Alternative Title

American scenery, stereoscopic studies.
American scenery, tourists series.
American scenery, war views.
American views, new H series.
American views, standard series.
The southern series, Charleston, South Carolina. 8, 38, 47.

Subject

Calhoun, John C. 1782-1850 > Statue
Citadel Academy (Charleston, S.C.)
African Americans > Employment > South Carolina
African American children
African American women
Agricultural laborers > South Carolina
Balconies > South Carolina > Charleston
Batteries > South Carolina > Charleston
Carts & wagons > South Carolina > Charleston
Cemeteries > South Carolina > Charleston
Churches > South Carolina > Charleston
Cotton
Customs houses > South Carolina > Charleston
Dwellings > South Carolina > Charleston
Farming > South Carolina
Forts & fortifications > South Carolina > Charleston
Gardens > South Carolina > Charleston
Government buildings > South Carolina > Charleston
Hotels > South Carolina > Charleston
Oaks > South Carolina > Charleston
Palms > South Carolina > Charleston
Parks > South Carolina > Charleston
Piers & wharves > South Carolina > Charleston
Post offices > South Carolina > Charleston
Ruins > South Carolina > Charleston
Schools > South Carolina > Charleston
Sculpture > South Carolina > Charleston
Shipping > South Carolina > Charleston
Steamboats > South Carolina > Charleston
Streets > South Carolina > Charleston
War damage > South Carolina > Charleston
Waterworks > South Carolina > Charleston
Sullivans Island (S.C.)
South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
United States > History > Historic sites. > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

Group portraits.
Albumen photoprints.
Photoprints.
Stereographs.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Includes views by O. Pierre Havens, F. A. Nowell, S. T. Souder, and other photographers and publishers. Some views by Nowell duplicate views by George N. Barnard, see record #NYPG92-F25.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Cite As (note)

Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.

Call Number

MFY Dennis Coll 92-F31

OCLC

NYPG92-F31

Title

Stereoscopic views of Charleston, South Carolina [graphic].

Imprint

1860?-1903?

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.

Cite As:

Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.

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Added Author

Anderson. Photographer

Cook, Geo. L. (George L.). Photographer

Havens, O. Pierre, 1838-1912. Photographer

Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909. Photographer

Leidloff, H. (Herman). Photographer

Nowell, F. A. Photographer Charleston & vicinity.

Quinby, S. D. Photographer

Ryan, D. J., 1837- . Photographer Southern stereoscopic views. 107.

Souder, S. T. Photographer

Soule, John P. Photographer War views. 363, 373.

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) Views in Charleston, S. C. 9432, 9455.

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) War views. 3070.

Southern scenes in the stereoscope.

Kilburn Brothers, photographers.

Littleton View Co., publishers.

Quinby & Co., photographers.

Setley & Davis. Charleston, S. C. & vicinity. 185.

Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.

Added Title

American scenery, stereoscopic studies.

American scenery, tourists series.

American scenery, war views.

American views, new H series.

American views, standard series.

The southern series, Charleston, South Carolina. 8, 38, 47.

Research Call Number

MFY Dennis Coll 92-F31

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