April 17, 2024
1861 Osborn & Durbec Stereoview - Cannons at Fort Mountrie - Charleston, S.C.
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1861 original vintage albumen print stereoview by Osborn & Durbec of Charleston, South Carolina. There is no imprint, but this is one of their rare stereoviews showing Confederate gun emplacements at Fort Moultrie at Charleston. Very old pencil writing on the back reads: "View from Rampart looking down Main Street Showing Guns in foreground." On the left edge of the front of the card mount is written: "Guns in Moultrie 1861." This photograph is reproduced as a single image on page 119 (bottom) of Volume 1 of "The Image of War 1861-1865" edited by William C. Davis. Beginning on page 106, Davis provides some important information about Osborn & Durbec. "On April 17, 1861, and probably for two or three days thereafter, two special photographers visited not only Fort Sumter, but also all of the Confederate installations that fired against it. They were James M. Osborn and F.E. Durbec, who operated out of their photograph gallery at 223 King Street in Charleston. Davis also states the following about the photography team. "They are today forgotten, but on those days in April 1861 they took a place beside Brady and Gardner and Edwards and the rest of the war's immortal chroniclers." He concludes by telling the reader that Osborn & Durbec made over 40 "scenes" in Sumter and the Charleston batteries, "the most complete record ever made of
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