Working location
W. E. James, No. 267 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
No. 267 Fulton Street, Brooklyn · Brooklyn, New York
Approximate historical location. Fulton Street, Brooklyn, from OpenStreetMap. The street number is period and is not converted.
Not a Charleston address, but a Charleston photograph: the imprint reads “photographed by W.E. James, no. 267 Fulton Street, Brooklyn” and the picture is the flag going back up over Fort Sumter on 14 April 1865.
The numbering problem
A period Brooklyn street number, printed on the mount. It is not converted to a modern address here, and the pin is placed to Fulton Street rather than to a building.
Who worked here
- William E. James1835 – 1887
What is there now
Fulton Street was renumbered and largely rebuilt in the twentieth century; no modern parcel is claimed.
Where the address comes from
- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
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
- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/