James River Virginia. Group of officers on deck of the MONITOR – Historic Photograph Print
(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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James River Virginia. Group of officers on deck of the MONITOR comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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James River Virginia. Group of officers on deck of the MONITOR
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This picture shows officers gathered on the deck of the USS Monitor, the Union ironclad that fought the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia to a draw at Hampton Roads in March 1862. The photograph was taken on the James River in 1862, when the Monitor was supporting Union operations during the Peninsula Campaign. Its maker, David B. Woodbury, was one of several photographers who documented the war's naval and army activity in Virginia. The image is on a glass negative made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat and expose each plate while it was still wet. Few photographs of the Monitor's crew survive, which makes this one a useful record of the ship's officers.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Group of officers on deck of the Monitor. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,209 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49660 |
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