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James River Va. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor – Historic Print

James River Va. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor, 1862 — historic photograph
James River Va. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor, 1862. Historic photograph from the Battleships collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This view shows the upper deck and gun turret of the USS Monitor, the Union ironclad photographed on the James River in 1862. The ship's low profile and rotating turret, designed by John Ericsson, set it apart from conventional wooden warships, and it had fought the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia to a draw at Hampton Roads that March. Photographer David B. Woodbury made the image as a glass stereograph using the wet collodion process, so its two paired views were meant to be seen together through a stereoscope. Pictures of the Monitor from this period are among the few that record the ship's odd, cramped working deck.

Created / published1862
Medium1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0536 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Government vessels--Union.United States--Virginia--James River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,716 × 1,364 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-51803

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