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The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) regiment: on the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw
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Print shows Union and Confederate soldiers engaged in combat during the attack of the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina.
624 or 23714 U.S. Copyright Office.
Inscribed in ink on bottom right: 624, Sept. 11, 1863.
Blind stamp on bottom right: Deposited in U.S. District Clerk's Office Southern District, New York.
Inscribed in pencil on bottom center: 23714.
Oval stamp on bottom center: Copyright Library Nov 3 1863.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863 by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2393
Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2013.
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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