Title: Iron Clad "Essex," Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Object type: Carte-de-visite
Date: May 1863
Artist: Attributed to McPherson & Oliver 
Artist bio: American, active New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1860s
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 2 1/8 × 3 7/16 in. (5.4 × 8.7 cm)
Sheet: 2 1/8 × 3 7/16 in. (5.4 × 8.7 cm)
Mount: 2 1/2 in. × 4 in. (6.4 × 10.1 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: American Civil War