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NH 80855 United States' Centennial Exhibition, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876

Photo #: NH 80855 United States' Centennial Exhibition, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876
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Description: Photograph by Edward L. Wilson and W. Irving Adams, showing part of the U.S. Navy's exhibit at the exhibition, featuring a U.S. flag; Charles O. Cole's portrait of Dick Libby (see Photo # KN-582); models of drydocks, with a monitor in the one at left; heavy iron bars bent by the Boston Navy Yard's bending mill; and a monument made of wood from ships lost in the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area during the Civil War, including (from top to bottom): CSS Florida, USS Cumberland, USS Merrimack, USS Delaware, USS Columbia, USS Columbus, USS Pennsylvania, USS United States and USS Raritan. Copied from the book Photographic Views of the Naval Department of the United States, International Centennial Exhibition of 1876, held by the Navy Department Library in 1974. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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