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Osborn & Durbec "No. 12."

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03919.04 Author/Creator: Osborn & Durbec Place Written: Fort Sumter, South Carolina Type: Photograph Date: [17] April 1861 Pagination: 8.3 cm. x 17.2 cm. Full stereo . Orange mount with Osborn & Durbec label on verso. Order a Copy

Caption label on verso: "…Ending of Solders' [sic] Barracks seen in No. 11, and commencing and continuing with Officers' Quarters up to Gateway on the right. This completes the whole circuit in sections."

Osborn & Durbec

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