Naval Battery. Two 80 pounder Whitworths. Breaching battery against Sumter.

Naval Battery. Two 80 pounder Whitworths. Breaching battery against Sumter.

Photograph

Haas & Peale

Maker
American, active 1846–1867

Naval Battery. Two 80 pounder Whitworths. Breaching battery against Sumter.

1863
Albumen silver print
Image: 4 1/4 × 6 15/16 in. (10.8 × 17.6 cm)
Mount: 6 × 8 11/16 in. (15.3 × 22 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, 1948
Inscriptions signed in image on recto, BR: Haas & Peale
printed in gray(?) ink on mount recto, BC: Photod. by Haas & Peale Morris Island & Hilton
Head, S.C.
printed in black ink on applied label affixed to mount recto, BR: No. 1.—NAVAL BATTERY. \ Two 80-pounder Whitworths. Breaching battery against Sumter.
signed in blue ink on mount verso, TR: Christian Bertelsen
stamped in black ink on mount verso, TR: 262 - 78th Street \ Brooklyn, N.Y.
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