97 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, b&w; 88 x 177 mm. or smaller.
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.
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.
Title
Stereoscopic views of Charleston, South Carolina [graphic].
Imprint
1860?-1903?
Restricted access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.