Alabama Gallery

Battle of Mobile Bay, Civil War, 1864

Farragut's flagship USS "Hartford" colliding with the ironclad CSS "Tennessee" to secure Mobile Bay, 1864.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Map of Louisiana, 1744, showing the mouths of the Mississippi River while part of New France.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of the map

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Jefferson Davis inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America at the state house in Montgomery, Alabama, 1861.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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