Identifier: americanannualof28newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Figure 2. DORCHESTER FORT ON THE ASHLEY RIVER,SOUTH CAROLINA. when Charleston and neighboring posts were held by theBritish. Here opens a large field for the study of an interest-ing period in the Revolutionary struggle. A further incentive to learning something of the sametroublous times exists in the vicinity of the last. This is ahandsome silver drinking cup (Figure 3) once the propertyof Gen. Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox of the revolutionwho, from his shifting Headquarters in the South Carolinaswamps, did so much daring and efficient work in harassing 159
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Figure 3.GEN. MARIONS SILVER DRINKING CUP. the British and protecting the neighborhood from theirravages. Going north again, the locaHty in which the writer has hishome fairly bristles with historic memorials. The HistoricalSociety of a neighboring county has gathered many photo-graphs of these into attractive albums, forming a collection ofrare interest in illustrating the doings of our predecessors, inpeace as well as war. A negative by the writer, presenting a picture of a quaintold church, supplied, after destruction of the building by fire, 160 many prints which served as mementos for members of thecongregation and as aid in making up a rebuilding fund. An old Daguerreotype was discovered which represented achurch building still older than the other, but long since dis-placed. A reproduction of this made a valued addition to thechurch records and was much prized by the survivors of thosewho had known the old structure and by others who, withthem, worshipped in its successor. In t

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