This photo might be a little tough, but if you’ve traveled around Charleston County, you might have seen it. (That’s about as much of a hint as we’ll give.) First to correctly guess the location of this Michael Kaynard photo gets a pair of ticket vouchers for box seats at a Charleston RiverDogs’ game. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
More than 200 old photos and maps involving the Charleston area and more of South Carolina are part of a new collection of 180,000 high-resolution digital images that have been released into the public domain by the New York Public Library. Above is a stereoscopic image — a 19th century version of an image that you could use special glasses similar to the more modern View-Master to get a 3-D image — of cotton drying on a roof of a warehouse in downtown Charleston in the late 1870s.
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