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Title: Thlrteen-inch mortar, arsenal yard, Washington, D.C
Creator: Russell, Andrew J., photographer
Contributor: Clough, J. B. (Joel Barber), 1823-1881. (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A man stands besides a thirteen-inch "Dictator" mortar in the U.S. arsenal yard, Washington. D.C. There are other cannon barrels lined up in a row behind the man. Title on mount: U.S. Arsenal. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 41.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 24 x 32.5 cm, mount 35 x 44 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (82)
396542
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/339
Subject: Washington Arsenal (Washington, D.C.)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies
Mortars (Ordnance)--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Cannons--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Albumen prints--1860-1870. (gmgpc)
Source: Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs by Andrew J. Russell.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Gift of Frank Clough, Capt. Clough's grandson, July 25, 1975.

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