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Description
English: Gunners operating a pivot gun aboard the United States Navy vessel USS Enterprise (1874), about 1890.
Date probably 1890
Source From Life and Heroic Deeds of Admiral Dewey including Battles in the Philippines (Globe Bible Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1899)
Author probably E.H. Hart
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https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/antique-historical-photographs-from-the-us-navy-and-army-cannon-gm1075002224-287774936
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-firing-a-pivot-gun-the-above-picture-shows-in-fuller-detail-the-pivot-171174661.html

Looks to be taken around the same time as this photo, source page here, which was taken by E.H. Hart, New York City, probably spring 1890 at the New York Navy Yard.

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  • 2006-02-18 00:46 ChrisO 500×327× (69843 bytes) Gunners operating a [[pivot gun]] aboard a [[United States Navy]] vessel, late [[19th century]] (date unknown) From ''Life and Heroic Deeds of Admiral Dewey including Battles in the Philippines'' (Globe Bible Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1899)

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