Osborn's Gallery interior of Fort Sumter's casemate .
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04509.38 Author/Creator: Osborn's Gallery Place Written: Charleston, South Carolina Type: Photograph Date: April 1861 Pagination: carte de visite, 6.2 x 9.9 cm. White mount with gold border. Order a Copy
Oval scene of a river valley pasted on verso. Purported to be the only known photograph of the interior of Fort Sumter's casemate, this view shows a row of guns mounted beneath brick archways.
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