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Sham Fight

New South Wales Government Printing Office

Date: April 12, 1881
Medium: Albumen silver print
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

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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