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Lookout Battery on bluff overlooking ocean at Yorktown, Virginia

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0883 Author/Creator: Place Written: Yorktown, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 9.8 cm, Width: 10.5 cm Order a Copy

A view of the batteries facing the ocean at Yorktown. Several ships are seen at sea, and some of the dockyards are visible to the middle right of the image. Inscription on verso: "Water Battery, Yorktown, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "1."

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