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Ruins of a blockade runner, Morris Island, SC [split stereocard]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1170 Author/Creator: Place Written: Morris Island, South Carolina Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 9.2 cm, Width: 8.6 cm Order a Copy

Image shows the machinery in ruins of a destroyed blockade runner. Numeric notation on image: "3504." Inscription on image: "The War For The Union." Numeric notation on verso: "368." Inscription on verso: "4-169 Dup," "War V [cut off]," "Machinery of the Blockade Runner [cut off]," "'Ruby' -Morris Is. S.C.," and "Published by E. & H. [cut off] American and Foreign Stereoscopic [cut off]."

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