Unknown Navy Department building [1860's ca.]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0344 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1860's ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 16.5 x 13.3 cm Order a Copy
Tree lined street. The navy department building is visible behind the line of trees. Inscription on verso: "Navy Dept. West and North." An additional inscription "not this" is partially trimmed off. The building in the photograph matches a different image of the building in CWTI Photographic History of the Civil War. Vol. 2: 894.
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