Working location
Haas & Peale’s Morris Island studio
Morris Island · Morris Island, South Carolina
Approximate historical location. The island, from OpenStreetMap. A field studio on a barrier island in a siege line cannot be pinned closer than this, and the shoreline has moved since.
Morris Island in the summer of 1863 was the Federal siege line: batteries, camps, the ground in front of Battery Wagner, and the Beacon House. Working here meant coating, exposing and developing a plate within sight of Confederate guns.
Who worked here
- Philip Haasborn about 1808
- Washington Pealedates not established
What is there now
The island survives, much changed by erosion; no structure of 1863 does.
Where the address comes from
- 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
- OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Used for the modern street intersections this section pins approximate locations to. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Sources
- Stephen Davis and Jack W. Melton Jr., 100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Charleston in the War (Charleston: Historical Publications LLC, 2020).
- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/