Working location
Quinby & Co.
No. 233 King Street · Charleston, South Carolina
Approximate historical location. Not the building. The point is the middle of the King Street commercial corridor between Market and Calhoun streets, from OpenStreetMap.
Quinby took this address over from Tyler & Co. in February 1857. Craig’s Daguerreian Registry places James M. Osborn at 233 King Street five years earlier, in 1852 — the same number, a different tenant, and a reminder that a street number identifies a shopfront over time, not a person.
The numbering problem
Charleston's present street numbers date from the city-wide renumbering carried out under contract from 1882 and finished before the earthquake of 31 August 1886. A wartime number and a modern number of the same name are not the same address, and no conversion table survives, so this location is not matched to a modern parcel.
Who worked here
- Charles J. Quinby29 February 1832 – 13 March 1920
What is there now
Not established.
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
- “The Street Numbers of Peninsular Charleston,” Charleston County Public Library. https://www.ccpl.org/street-numbers-peninsular-charleston
Sources
- Stephen Davis and Jack W. Melton Jr., 100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Charleston in the War (Charleston: Historical Publications LLC, 2020).
- John S. Craig, Craig’s Daguerreian Registry (Torrington, Conn.: John S. Craig), consulted through Pioneer American Photographers.
- Pioneer American Photographers, 1839–1860 — a compilation of period advertisements, directory entries and registry records, with each entry citing the periodical or directory it came from. https://pioneeramericanphotographers.com/