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Title
Views on Navy Yard Mare Island foundry &c (2 views)
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1872 and 1882]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: Mare Island photograph album, pg. [13].
View 1 (1991-1166). Shows foundry and Steam Engineering building on left -- view 2 (1991-1167). Shows Foundry, stacks of cannonballs and cylinders.
Also have negative: no. 23,878 for 1991-1167.
Construction on the foundry began in 1854 and completed after the Civil War. Initially designed by Superintendent of Public Works at Mare Island, Daniel Turner; was completed by Calvin Brown.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographs : prints ; 10 7/8 x 13 1/8 in. and 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001628917CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Mare Island Naval Shipyard--Photographs
Foundries--California--Mare Island--Photographs
Naval shipyards & naval stations--California--Mare Island
Boat & ship industry--California--Mare Island
Cannon balls
Mare Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
Mare Island
Mare Island (Calif.)

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