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Vendue Range, Chareston, S. C

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.106 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1865 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "Vendue Range, Charleston, S. C., looking east, from near the corner of East [illegible] St." Card is stained and faded on back. Ruins of buildings, wooden plank sidewalks and a large building with columns which once would have been very elegant. [Similar image to 5137.102.]

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