Working location
The parapet of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter · Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
A place photographs were made FROM, rather than a business. George S. Cook and James Osborn set up here on 8 September 1863 and worked under fire. In April 1865 Barnard photographed Sam Cooley standing beside his camera on the same parapet — one photographer’s picture of another at work, which is why we know what the work looked like.
Who worked here
- George Smith Cook23 February 1819 – 27 November 1902
- James M. Osborn1811 – 1868
- George N. Barnard23 December 1819 – 4 February 1902
- Samuel Abbot Cooley3 November 1821 – 15 May 1900
What is there now
The fort survives, though what stands is largely the sand-and-rubble work the bombardment left, with later alterations.
Where the address comes from
- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
- Stephen Davis and Jack W. Melton Jr., 100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Charleston in the War (Charleston: Historical Publications LLC, 2020).
Where the coordinate comes from
- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Sources
- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
- Stephen Davis and Jack W. Melton Jr., 100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Charleston in the War (Charleston: Historical Publications LLC, 2020).
- “George Smith Cook (23 February 1819–27 November 1902),” Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Library of Virginia, Richmond. https://old.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Cook_George_Smith