View showing the Essex firing upon the Confederate gunboat grounded on the riverbank in the foreground. Flames engulf the Arkansas near a crowd of fleeing people. Also includes the names of the ships printed below the image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events.
Creator
Currier & Ives
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Arkansas [5779.F.48]
Depicts the large gunboat with one engine stack and high flying American flags on the Delaware River on Naval Day, one of many ships in the naval parade that opened the Peace Jubilee celebration of the end of the Spanish American War of 1898. Formerly named Corsair and owned by J. Pierpont Morgan, the ship was purchased by the Navy at the outbreak of the Spanish American War. The Gloucester helped to blockade the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor and later captured Guanico in Puerto Rico. A much smaller boat is about to pass the battleship in the foreground. City Hall tower is visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
October 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.274]
