Sixth plate ruby ambrotype of a young boy dressed in a Zouave-style cap and jacket, posed on a chair playing a drum. Housed under convex glass in a half case with Cook/ Artist/ Charleston on the back cover. George Smith Cook (1819-1902) began his photography career by opening one of the first daguerreotype studios in New Orleans and moved throughout the South, eventually settling in Richmond. He was in Charleston during the Civil War and is often credited with taking the first known live combat photograph, showing Union ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie. This ambrotype was recently displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is housed in a Met archival box with Met catalog information.
Sixth plate ruby ambrotype of a young boy dressed in a Zouave-style cap and jacket, posed on a chair playing a drum. Housed under convex glass in a half case with Cook/ Artist/ Charleston on the back cover. George Smith Cook (1819-1902) began his photography career by opening one of the first daguerreotype studios in New Orleans and moved throughout the South, eventually settling in Richmond. He was in Charleston during the Civil War and is often credited with taking the first known live combat photograph, showing Union ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie. This ambrotype was recently displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is housed in a Met archival box with Met catalog information.
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