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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59001

"United States Mississippi Gun-boats being built at Carondelet, near St. Louis, Missouri"


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 5 October 1861.
It depicts, rather inaccurately, the construction of four of the "City" class ironclads by James Eads, including Carondelet, Louisville, Pittsburg and Saint Louis.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 November 1999