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Harpers Ferry: 1865
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 1:22am.
1865. "Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. View of Maryland Heights at confluence of Shenandoah and Potomac rivers." Wet plate glass negative (detail) by James Gardner. Civil War glass negative collection, Library of Congress. View full size.
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Manhattan Bridge: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 1:33am.
March 23, 1909. Construction of the Manhattan Bridge as seen from Brooklyn. 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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New York, New York: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 1:34am.
December 1941. "Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York." View full size. 35mm negative by Jack Delano. Office of War Information.
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Easy Street: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 5:00pm.
February 5, 1917. "Naval militia guard a New York bridge." View full size. 6x4 dry plate glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. Zoom the posters.
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U.S.S. Galena: 1862
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 3:24pm.
1862. On the James River in Virginia. "Effect of Confederate shot on Federal ironclad Galena." Wet plate glass negative by James F. Gibson. View full size.
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At Ease: 1862
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 9:49pm.
July 9, 1862. "James River, Virginia. Sailors relaxing on deck of the U.S.S. Monitor." From photographs of the Federal Navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. View full size. Wet plate negative, left half of stereograph pair. Photograph by James F. Gibson.
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Ironclad: 1862
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 2:21am.
July 9, 1862. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor on the James River, Virginia. From photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy. Wet collodion glass negative, left half of stereo pair. Photographed by James F. Gibson. View full size.
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