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Artistic rendering of New Ironsides Attack on Fort Sumpter

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.0975 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1864/06/28 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 5.7 cm, Width: 9.5 cm Order a Copy

Ink inscription on recto "New Ironsides Moonlight Attack on Fort Sumpter. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by Wm. H. Rease, in the Clerk's Office of the Disctrict Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Graphite inscription on verso "From Great Artists Fair--Tuesday June 28th 1864" "J. M. Thompson." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by Wm. H. Rease, N. E. Cor. Fourth & Chestnut Sts. Philadelphia."

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