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![Plan of the battle of August 5, 1864. [Mobile Bay]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDEvcGxhbi1vZi10aGUtYmF0dGxlLW9mLWF1Z3VzdC01LTE4NjQtbW9iaWxlLWJheS1iZTdmYTItNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/30/webp "Plan of the battle of August 5, 1864. [Mobile Bay]")
Great naval victory in Mobile Bay, Aug. 5th 1864
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Print shows battle between Union monitors and sloops against Confederate ships and ram CSS Tennessee in Mobile Bay with Fort Morgan in the distance.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2853
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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