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Monitor Camanche at the U.S. Navy Yard, Mare Island - View from Vallejo, Solano County – Antique Wall Art

Monitor Camanche at the U.S. Navy Yard, Mare Island - View from Vallejo, Solano County, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Monitor Camanche at the U.S. Navy Yard, Mare Island - View from Vallejo, Solano County, [published 1866]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 views of the Union Navy's ironclads were made on the Pacific coast, which is what sets this stereograph apart. It shows the monitor *Camanche* at the U.S. Navy Yard on Mare Island, seen from the town of Vallejo across the strait in Solano County. The ship was one of the monitors built in San Francisco during the Civil War and shipped in sections around Cape Horn, so it arrived too late to see combat. The print is one half of a stereographic pair from the *Gems of California Scenery* series, and its caption information is recorded as unverified, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of the navy yard in the years just after the war.

Created / published[published 1866]
Medium1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
SubjectsThe Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 580. LOT subdivision subject: USS Monitor Camanche--Ironside ship built in San Francisco. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,423 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116203

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