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Osborn & Durbec "[No.] 19."

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03919.09 Author/Creator: Osborn & Durbec Place Written: [Fort] Sumter, [S.C] Type: Photograph Date: [1861/04/17] Pagination: 8.3 cm. x 17.2 cm. Full stereo. Orange mount. Order a Copy

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.

Osborn & Durbec

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