PHOTOS OF THE TIMES

Provided by the Kirn Library Sargeant Memorial Room unless stated otherwise.
Compiled by DONNA BLUEMINK

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Harbor Scenes.

View of the United States Navy Yard at Gosport, Opposite Norfolk, Va.
Gleason's Pictorials: Boston, Sat. July 9, 1853,
Vol. V, No. 2.-whole No. 106.

Bird's-Eye View of Portsmouth Harbor, Looking North.
Sketch Book of Portsmouth, Virginia: Its People And Its Trade.
by Edward Pollock, 1886, page 37.

View of the Harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth from Near Fort Norfolk.
Historical Collections of Virginia
containing a collection of the most interesting facts.
by Henry Howe, Published by Wm. R. Babcock, Charleston, SC,1856, page 252 overleaf.

Fort Monroe is seen in front, on Old Point Comfort, and in the distance,
Fort Calhoun, at the Rip Raps.
Historical Collections of Virginia containing a collection
of the most interesting facts.
by Henry Howe, Published by Wm. R. Babcock, Charleston, SC, 1856, page 252 overleaf.

General View of the Gosport Navy Yard from the deck of the U. S. Receiving Ship "Franklin."
Sketch Book of Portsmouth, Virginia: Its People And Its Trade.
by Edward Pollock, 1886, page 126 overleaf.

Lambert's Point Coal Pier.
Sketch Book of Portsmouth, Virginia: Its People And Its Trade.
by Edward Pollock, 1886, page 211.

Sections of Water Front Showing Boston, Providence
and Liverpool Steamship Lines' Wharves.
Facts and Figures About Norfolk, "Norfolk
As a Business Center: its principal industries and trades."
by Cary W. Jones, Virginian Presses, 1881, page 69.

Gosport Navy Yard.
1843 Engraving by J. O. Montalant, published in 1845 in
Historical Collections of Virginia, by Henry Howe,
Babcock & Co., Charleston, SC, 1846, page 401.

View of the Harbor of Portsmouth.
1843 Engraving by J. O. Montalant, published in 1845 in
Historical Collections of Virginia.
by Henry Howe, Publisher Wm. R. Babcock,
Charleston, SC, 1856, page 400.

A Corner of East Norfolk.
Our Twin Cities of the Nineteenth Century (Norfolk & Portsmouth):
their past, present and future.
Robert W. Lamb, Editor, Barcroft Publisher, Norfolk, VA 1887-8, page 101.

Norfolk County Ferries.
Our Twin Cities of the Nineteenth Century (Norfolk & Portsmouth):
their past, present and future.
Robert W. Lamb, Editor, Barcroft Publisher, Norfolk, VA 1887-8, page 15.

Berkley.
Our Twin Cities of the Nineteenth Century (Norfolk & Portsmouth):
their past, present and future.
Robert W. Lamb, Editor, Barcroft Publisher, Norfolk, VA 1887-8, page 39.

Berkley From Norfolk and Western Railroad.
Our Twin Cities of the Nineteenth Century (Norfolk & Portsmouth):
their past, present and future.
Robert W. Lamb, Editor, Barcroft Publisher, Norfolk, VA 1887-8, page 84.

Sargeant Memorial Room Picture File,
Waterfront #110, circa 1857.

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Views of Norfolk and Portsmouth
Courtesy of US Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA

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