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Cotton Pickers, oil painting on panel by William Aiken Walker Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863, oil painting on canvas, 1886, Gibbes Museum of Art. William Aiken Walker (March 11, 1839 – January 3, 1921) was an American artist best known for genre paintings of African-American sharecroppers. He also ...
The retired 75-year-old Hollywood set painter who worked on movies like "Ocean's Eleven" and TV shows like "Star Trek" has been painting watercolor cityscapes of Altadena for the past 40 years ...
Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina at Charleston in the American Civil War, by George N. Barnard (restored by Adam Cuerden) Charge across the Burnside Bridge , by Edwin Forbes (restored by Adam Cuerden )
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina, United States. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects according to a list of criteria of national significance. [ 1 ]
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum (SCCRRMM) is located at 301 Gervais Street in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, in a building shared with the South Carolina State Museum. It was founded in 1896, and is the oldest museum in Columbia and the third oldest in the state. [ 1 ]
Castle Pinckney is a small masonry fortification constructed by the United States government, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1810. [2] [3] It was used very briefly as a prisoner-of-war camp (six weeks) and artillery position during the American Civil War. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [1]
File:Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina by George N. Barnard - Original.jpg - Original (JPEG) Assessment This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons ( Featured pictures ) and is considered one of the finest images.
George Smith Cook (February 23, 1819 – November 27, 1902) was an early American photographer known as a pioneer in the development of the field. Primarily a studio portrait photographer, he is the first to have taken a photograph of combat during a war: he captured images in 1863 of Union ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie in South Carolina during the Civil War.