American Civil War,Port Royal Island,South Carolina,SC,African Americans,1862

Title: [Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith's plantation]
Creator(s): O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1862.
Summary: Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Shows seven African Americans sitting in a pile of cotton in front of gin house.
Notes:
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0587
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-0159B) and right (LC-B811-0159A) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4205.
Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
Reference copy in: LOT 4205.
Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
Port Royal (S.C.)--Expedition, 1861.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--South Carolina--Port Royal Island.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Wet collodion negatives--1860-1870.
Bookmark /cwp2003000764/PP/
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