DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 54359
USS Elk (1864-1865)
Officers on the ship's upper deck, seen from a similar river
steamer during the Civil War.
Note fancy woodwork around the deck edge and pilothouse roof,
bullet-proof metal plating and ship's number ("47")
on the pilothouse, and smokestack brace.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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