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Unidentified Photographer

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Turret of the Monitor shows fifteen marks where she was hit by Rebel shot, leaving dents in the turret some of them large enough to lay a man's head in.
SERIES TITLE: "Photographic History. The War For The Union."

ca. 1863
albumen print stereograph
7.8 x 7.5 cm. (each) on 8.7 x 17.5 cm. mount
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Philip Medicus
84:1023:0002

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 34
NON-GEH NUMBER: No. 80

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(printed) "Photographic Histo...(partially broken off)" "The War For The Union." (in image) "80" mount verso-(applied printed label) "War Views." "1861." "1865." "No. 80." "The Turret of the Monitor shows fifteen marks where she was hit by Rebel shot, leaving dents in the turret some of them large enough to lay a man's head in." "These are the original views taken by the Government Artist, during 1861-2-3-4-5. The can be obtained only ..."

FRAME: orange mount

NOTES: Catalogued 11/2000, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
artifact, turret
transportation, naval ship

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