The Gun-boat New Era, just built at St. Louis, Missouri / sketched by a correspondent. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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The Gun-boat New Era, just built at St. Louis, Missouri / sketched by a correspondent. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Gun-boat New Era, just built at St. Louis, Missouri / sketched by a correspondent.
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The engraving shows the *New Era*, a gunboat built at St. Louis, drawn from sketches by a correspondent and published in *Harper's Weekly* on October 12, 1861, on page 646. In 1861 the Union was racing to build a river fleet to control the Mississippi and its tributaries, and St. Louis, with its riverfront shipyards and foundries, became one of the main places where those vessels were fitted out. Pictures like this one gave readers at home their first look at the warships that the war effort depended on.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 Oct. 12, p. 646. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment & supplies--Union. Gunboats--Union--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,290 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-185088 |
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