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The captured Mexican steamer MIRAMON, with the U.S. sloop PREBLE, lying off Algiers, La. – Vintage Wall Art

The captured Mexican steamer MIRAMON, with the U.S. sloop PREBLE, lying off Algiers, La., 1860 — antique engraving
The captured Mexican steamer MIRAMON, with the U.S. sloop PREBLE, lying off Algiers, La., 1860. Antique engraving from the Steamboats 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 images capture their era like this antique engraving of The captured Mexican steamer MIRAMON, with the U.S. sloop PREBLE, lying off Algiers, La.. 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 captured Mexican steamer MIRAMON, with the U.S. sloop PREBLE, lying off Algiers, La.

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The engraving shows the Mexican steamer *Miramon* held under the guns of the U.S. sloop *Preble* off Algiers, Louisiana, the river community across from New Orleans. The ship's name honors Miguel Miramón, a Conservative general fighting the Liberal government of Benito Juárez in Mexico's War of the Reform. Harper's Weekly ran the scene in 1860, when the seizure of a vessel tied to a Mexican faction strained relations between Washington and Mexico City. The print is a useful view of how the American press framed that dispute for readers at home.

Created / published1860
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1860. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Int. relations--Mexico-U.S.--1860; Navy, U.S.--1860; La.--Algiers--1860; Ships, US Govt.--PREBLE--1860; Ships--MIRAMON--1860; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141578

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