Special Collections Finding Aids
Publication Date
11-11-2021
Abstract
The collection comprises photographs of the remains of the U.S.S. "Cairo" around 1970, copies of blueprints of a Mississippi River gunboat, and a copy of the 1861 contract and specifications for the gunboats.
Source Collection
Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Keywords
Cairo (Gunboat); Salvage archeology--Mississippi.
Recommended Citation
"MSS0460. U.S.S. Cairo collection finding aid" (2021). Special Collections Finding Aids. 94.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-findingaids/94
Date
2021 November
Rights Statement
Archival Statement
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