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Black-and-white lithograph of the warship Pennsylvania burning at night with smoke and flames rising over dark water.

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Burning of the U.S. ship of the line Pennsylvania, 140 guns and other vessels, at the Gosport Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. on the night of April 20th 1861, Currier & Ives (1861), Library of Congress. Via artnap.com

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A black-and-white lithograph shows the U.S. ship of the line Pennsylvania engulfed in flames and billowing smoke, with a second vessel burning at the right edge on dark water. The print, issued by Currier & Ives in 1861, depicts the burning of the Pennsylvania and other vessels at the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, on the night of April 20, 1861.