Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

Winter 1-1978

Description

This photograph, taken in the late 1970s, is an aerial view of the Citadel: Military College of South Carolina. The Romanesque design of the buildings was based on the architecture of the Old Citadel, which was designed by Frederick Wesner in 1828.

Following Reconstruction the Old Citadel, which had been built in the 1830s in response to a slave revolt, resumed its function as a military college. By World War I, despite numerous structural additions, enrollment had outgrown the building and a new campus was constructed in Charleston.

Notes

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/charleston/ssa.htm

(accessed 30 Nov 2011)

http://www.citadel.edu/citadel-history/brief-history.html

(accessed 29 Nov 2011)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Citadel,_The_Military_College_of_South_Carolina (accessed 30 Nov 2011)

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

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Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

Keywords

aerial, Romanesque, architecture, modern

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