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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 57941

Washington Navy Yard, D.C.


View of the large ordnance storage yard in the northwestern part of the Navy Yard, taken by Brady & Company in June 1866. Among the many types of guns present are several large mortars, with round shot stacked nearby.
The photograph looks ESE from just west of the SW corner of the present (1997) Building 104. The building running across the background is the present Building 33. That at right is the Ordnance Foundry that occupied the site of the present Building 28.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 119KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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

 

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3 December 2001