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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59000

"Fort Holt, Kentucky, Opposite Cairo."


Line engraving, after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", circa January 1862.
It depicts Fort Holt in the foreground. Background features identified on the print include (from left): "Gun-boat Lexington", Bird's Point, Mississippi River, Fort Cairo, Cairo (Illinois), and the Ohio River.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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6 June 2000