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Osborn's Gallery View of the shot furnace inside Fort Sumter, which sits below the flagstaff.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04509.37 Author/Creator: Osborn's Gallery Place Written: Charleston, South Carolina Type: Photograph Date: April 1861 Pagination: carte de visite, 6.2 x 9.5 cm. White mount with gold border. Order a Copy

Oval pastoral scene of three girls pasted on verso. View of the shot furnace inside Fort Sumter, which sits below the flagstaff. The top of the flagstaff, where the Confederate flag now flies, has been cut off in this photograph.

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