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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 54222

USS Enterprise
(1877-1909)

Gilded pine eagle removed from the ship in 1910, when her hulk was burned off Point of Pines, Maine. The carving is marked "William E. Seward, 1881". It was later purchased at Searsport by Mr. Rubenstein, a dealer in Rockland, Maine.

Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Index of American Design, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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3 December 2004