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Sham Fight (Main View)
New South Wales Government Printing Office
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View of a naval exercise taking place in the Sydney Harbor, with smoke billowing from several warships visible in the distance. Fort Denison with its "martello" tower, a low and circular defensive tower, is in the center of the image, while spectators aboard a number of small boats can be seen in the foreground.
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Details
- Title: Sham Fight (Main View)
- Creator: New South Wales Government Printing Office
- Date Created: April 12, 1881
- Location Created: Sydney, Australia
- Physical Dimensions: 18 × 25.1 cm (7 1/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XA.1481.27
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: New South Wales Government Printing Office
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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