Engine of the sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge, best known for her defeat of the Confederate raider CSS Alabama during the Civil War on June 19, 1864. Medium: wet collodion on glass. Photographer unknown. [ 1360 x 1024 ]

Comments

1. RonPossible

   🎵And many a sailor saw his doom.

   Roll, Alabama, roll.

   As the Kearsarge hoved into view.

   Oh, roll, Alabama, roll.🎵

2. PerryPattySusiana

   Ah here you are again , with a ‘wet collodion’ image now! … one that can be taken without getting mercury poisoning .