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805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 57930

Washington Navy Yard, D.C.


View of the waterfront, looking east from the top of the western shiphouse, circa 1884-1894.
The old experimental battery building is in the lower center, the eastern shiphouse is in the left background with the old 11th Street Bridge crossing the Anacostia River in the center and right background.
The receiving ship alongside the waterfront is USS Dale. Moored offshore is a Canonicus class monitor.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 465 pixels

Note:
For more information on where this photograph was taken, see: Washington Navy Yard -- Comments on 1860s Views.

 

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29 November 2001