Kearsarce and Alabama / J.O. Davidson. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Kearsarce and Alabama / J.O. Davidson.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Kearsarce and Alabama / J.O. Davidson.
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Off the French port of Cherbourg on June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war Kearsarge met the Confederate raider Alabama in a battle that lasted roughly an hour before the Alabama sank. The Alabama had captured or burned dozens of Union merchant ships during the war, so its defeat was a major morale boost for the North. This color lithograph, published by L. Prang & Co. of Boston in 1887, is one of many nineteenth-century prints that revisited the engagement for a public eager to remember the naval war.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright 1887 by L. Prang & Co., Boston. |
| Subjects | Kearsarge (Sloop)--1860-1870. Alabama (Ship)--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,446 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217418 |
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