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Raising the flag at Fort Sumter, April /14/65 / photographed by W.E. James, no. 267 Fulton Street, Brooklyn

Raising the flag at Fort Sumter, April /14/65 / photographed by W.E. James, no. 267 Fulton Street, Brooklyn

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Photograph shows the ceremonial raising of the Fort Sumter flag on April 14, 1865, four years to the day after the Confederate surrender, as part of a celebration of the Union victory.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

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01/01/1865
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James, W. E. (William E.), photographer
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