Launch of the Dictator. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card.

Photograph shows crowds gathered for the 1863 launching of the U.S.S. Dictator by Delameter Iron Works, New York City, New York.
Title from handwritten inscription on back of card.
Publisher attribution based on provenance.
Gottheim collection code: GNY 125.
Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress)
Purchase; Larry Gottheim; 2008; (DLC/PP-2008:007)