[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876: Monitor Turret"]" – Historic Reproduction
![[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876: Monitor Turret"]", c1876. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4e/4e6b15aec5c5-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876: Monitor Turret"]", preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876: Monitor Turret"]"
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The turret in this stereograph is a rotating gun housing modeled on the Union ironclad USS Monitor, the vessel that fought the Confederate CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads in March 1862. John Ericsson's design put heavy guns inside a low, revolving iron cylinder, an idea that influenced naval construction on both sides of the Atlantic for decades. Its display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, a fair marking the nation's 100th birthday, let visitors see a Civil War innovation as a piece of national progress. The card's caption tracings also list a name, Friedrich Krupp, whose connection to this object the record does not explain.
| Created / published | c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War--Navy, US--Vessels; BI--Business; Exhibitions--1876; Shelf. Krupp, Friedrich, 1787-1826. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,399 × 1,686 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133506 |
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