CIVIL War 1865 Fort Sumter Charleston Sc Matthew Brady Selfie Boat Albumen Photo

  

A rare 1865 albumen photograph measuring approximately 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 inches cut from a stereoview. Information about the image appears below.

I also agree with National Geographic that this is a Matthew Brady self-portrait. Fourth image is for reference only.

The new Union occupants could not even begin to restore the original heavy gun positions at Fort Sumter, shown in the background in March 1865. Instead, they built a makeshift fortification on the side of the fort using palmetto logs (visible on the forts exterior).

This view was taken at low tide, from an exposed sandbar that runs across a part of the Charleston Harbor entrance. The figure on the far right is probably Mathew Brady, who later in the war had taken to posing in some of his own companys photographs.

Fort Sumter, from the sand-bar. 1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion.

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S. LC-DIG-cwpb-02290 digital file from original neg. Of left half LC-DIG-cwpb-02291 digital file from original neg. No known restrictions on publication. LC-B811- 3047 [P&P] LOT 4166-C (corresponding print).

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Stereo filed in LOT 4166-C.

The item "CIVIL WAR 1865 FORT SUMTER CHARLESTON SC MATTHEW BRADY SELFIE BOAT ALBUMEN PHOTO" is in sale since Saturday, May 28, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Other Civil War-Related Items".

The seller is "theprimitivefold" and is located in Villa Park, Illinois. This item can be shipped worldwide.