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Interior view of Fort Sumter in 1864 [i.e. 1863]

The interior of Fort Sumter photographed in 1863.

Fort Sumter from the inside while the Confederates still held it, photographed by Charleston’s own photographer and printed from the negative decades later.

Cook’s wartime interiors of Sumter are the counterpart to Barnard’s of 1865: the same fort, the same ruin, one made by a man who could get out there under Confederate authority and one by a man who came in with the occupation.

The repository’s notes

Title from item. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The record

Title, as catalogedInterior view of Fort Sumter in 1864 [i.e. 1863]
PhotographerGeorge Smith Cook
FirmGeorge S. Cook’s gallery
AttributionVerified
Date, as cataloged[photographed 1863, printed between 1880 and 1889]
PlaceFort Sumter, Charleston Harbor
Controlling forceConfederate-held
Processalbumen print on card mount
Formatphotographic print on card mount
Negative or printprint, from a wartime negative
CollectionCivil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints
Call numberLOT 4210, no. 14 [P&P]
Reproduction numberLC-DIG-ppmsca-35435 (digital file from original item); LC-USZ62-120309 and LC-B8184-10082 (b&w film copy negs.)
Inscription on the mountHand written on verso: “In Miller’s vol. I, p. 100”.
RepositoryLibrary of Congress
Credit lineLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
RightsNo known restrictions on publication
Rights advisory, verbatimNo known restrictions on publication.
Catalog recordhttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013651627/
ConfidenceVerified
Last verified2026-08-30

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