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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the old fortification. Not far away from this fort, in a building devoted to thecultivation of the spirit of peace, an exposure of five minutes,in semi-darkness, resulted in a picture of a chair of handsome,antique pattern, which had been presented to the church by anEnglish queen and further honored by having once beenoccupied, during service, by the venerated Father of ourcountry. Again an incentive to research. Who was the queen? What was the occasion of the gift? 158 What was Washingtons habit as a church goer? Turning to one of oursouthern states, we come upon the walls of a fort (Figure 2)still older than the one above mentioned, respecting the originof which nothing could be gathered beyond the surmise thatit may have been constructed by early settlers for protectionagainst attack by Spaniards or Red Men. These walls, laid with a mixture of lime and shells, knownas tabby, and as solid and unbroken as when built, but fora crack from earthquake shock, witnessed bloody encounters
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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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