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DescriptionWaud - infernal machines.jpg
English: Inscribed above image: Infernal machines discovered in the Potomac [near Aquia] Creek by the flotilla for whose destruction they were intended. Sketched by A. Waud from a photograph by James F. Gibson. Inscribed right with arrow leading to a frigate: Pawnee. Inscribed vertically left margin: gunboat Freeborn / Capt Ward. Published with descriptive text in: New York Illustrated News, July 22, 1861, p. 177 (Cover).
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g12570. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required.See Commons:Licensing.
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Author
Alfred Waud
(1828–1891)
Alternative names
Alfred Rudolph Waud
Description
American artist, illustrator and photographer
Date of birth/death
2 October 1828
6 April 1891
Location of birth/death
London
Marietta
Work period
American Civil War
Work location
United States of America (1850)
Authority file
: Q2226717
VIAF: 75232247
ISNI: 000000006708764X
ULAN: 500010848
LCCN: n83170752
Open Library: OL7029472A
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creator QS:P170,Q2226717
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== Summary == {{Information |Description=Infernal machines discovered in the Potomac [near Aquia] Creek by the flotilla for whose destruction they were intended. Sketched by A. Waud from a photograph by James F. Gibson. |Source=Library of Congress, Prints
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