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Osborn's Gallery View of Fort Sumter's rear parapet .

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04509.42 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 bust portrait [lithograph?] of a young woman pasted on verso. View of Fort Sumter's rear parapet showing a dismounted gun and a sandbag traverse.

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