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Barnard, a former staff photographer for Mathew Brady, retraced General William Tecumseh Sherman’s bloody march through the Carolinas and Georgia. Barnard compiled sixty-one landscape views into a deluxe album that he published in time for the Christmas market in 1866.<BR>The Pinckney Mansion in Charleston was damaged in 1861 in a fire unrelated to the war. Barnard nevertheless put the picturesque ruin at the center of a photograph he described as illustrating the vandalism of Confederate soldiers fleeing<BR>the city. The house of Ephraim Ponder sheltered Confederate sharpshooters during the siege of Atlanta; its perforated facade testifi es to its absorption of countless rounds of Union shellfire.","remarks":"The Life and Death of Buildings"}],"media":[{"id":84131,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV10766","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"},{"id":14390,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1975-224","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Luna Digitization Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1975,\" <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University,</em> 35, no. 1 (1976): p. 22-31.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1975,\" <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University,</em> 35, no. 1 (1976): p. 22-31., p. 27","date":1976,"id":3366,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774452"},{"boilertext":"Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. 1975. <EM>Important 19th and 20th Century Photographs</EM>, sale 3730. 25 February 1975, New York.","citation":"Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. 1975. <EM>Important 19th and 20th Century Photographs</EM>, sale 3730. 25 February 1975, New York., No. 116, sale 3784","date":1975,"id":3339,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/171646636"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1374,"citation":"The Life and Death of Buildings (July 23–November 6, 2011)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2011-07-23","enddate":"2011-11-06","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1374"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place depicted: North America, United States, South Carolina, Charleston, Pinckney Mansion","code":"Place depicted","continent":"North America","subcontinent":null,"country":"United States","region":null,"state":"South Carolina","city":"Charleston","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":"Pinckney Mansion","locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/4574324/charleston.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2038492,"term":"American","aatid":300107956,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2095774,"term":"architecture genres","aatid":300056445,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053728,"term":"black-and-white photographs","aatid":300128347,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2152514,"term":"destruction","aatid":300053087,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2078146,"term":"buildings","aatid":300004792,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053200,"term":"photographs","aatid":300046300,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2053478,"term":"albumen prints","aatid":300127121,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2085301,"term":"mansions","aatid":300071272,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2087836,"term":"ruins","aatid":300008057,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2134561,"term":"civil wars","aatid":300055315,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2156299,"term":"mounting","aatid":300081370,"termtype":"Techniques"},{"id":2153946,"term":"albumen process","aatid":300133274,"termtype":"Techniques"}],"classifications":[{"id":2053478,"classification":"albumen prints"},{"id":2053728,"classification":"black-and-white photographs"},{"id":2053200,"classification":"photographs"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2038492,"culture":"American"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199326,"term":"Photography","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"image","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"25.50"},{"element":"image","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"35.80"},{"element":"mount","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"41.00"},{"element":"mount","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"51.00"}],"packages":[{"packageid":183099,"name":"Photography-19thcentury_01"},{"packageid":152536,"name":"web_CivilWar"},{"packageid":45184,"name":"Website - Objects with Multiple parts"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1975-224"],"displaymaker":"George N. 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