Battery Pratt Pin

This black and white photo of battery Pratt at Old Fort Stevens near Hammond, Oregon has been textured to appear aged and distressed giving the abandoned military structure a solemn ghostly feel. The vacant metal doors, open doorways, and barred windows beyond the stairway to the gun emplacements seem to bespeak the lives and toils of men long gone who lived and worked here in defense of the Oregon coastline through many decades beginning in the civil war era and on through a world war.