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Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 18, 2014.
Image type
engraving
Original caption
Bursting of a shell in the streets of Charleston, South Carolina. Sketched by an English Artist."
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, January 9, 1864, p. 28.
Source note
This image was originally published in the London Illustrated News on December 5, 1863 from a sketch by one of its correspondents who was staying in a house nearby the fall of the shell. His report, in the same issue of the magazine (page 574) was dated August 24, 1863.