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Photo # NH 58856:  Engraving of the interior USS Monitor's turret, 1862

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USS Monitor (1862-1862) --
Views On Board -- Engravings


This page features engravings of views on board USS Monitor.

For photographs taken on board this ship, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862) -- Views On Board -- Photographs.

    For links to more pictorial coverage of USS Monitor, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862-1862) -- Selected Views.

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 45970

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Halftone reproduction of an engraving, depicting a scene on deck looking toward the turret. The view was published to show the effect of Confederate gunfire on Monitor's turret armor.
    The original engraving is based on the photograph seen in Photo # NH 2780 with details added at the extreme left and right and the pilothouse (seen beyond the turret) changed to resemble its original configuration.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 148KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58850

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the ship's berth deck.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 215KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58855

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the turret machinery and cook stove.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 178KB; 740 x 630 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58854

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the captain's cabin.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 153KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58858

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the ship's wardroom.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 150KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58857

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the pilothouse interior.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 188KB; 685 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58851

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the ship's engine room.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 166KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58856

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the turret interior and guns.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 212KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 79906

    "The Monitor's Heros at work in the Turret"


    Artwork published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 17, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
    It depicts turret crewmen of USS Monitor working their eleven-inch guns, during the battle with CSS Virginia, 9 March 1862.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 177KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42207

    "The First Naval Conflict Between Iron Clad Vessels."

    "In Hampton Roads, March 9th 1862."

    Lithograph by Endicott & Company, New York, 1862, after a drawing by C. Parsons, depicting the battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack). Other elements shown in the central image include Sewalls Point, CSS Jamestown, CSS Yorktown and "Rebel Tugs in the left distance; and USS Cumberland (sunken), USS Congress (burning, USS Minnesota and Newport News in the right distance.
    Shown around the central image are a portrait of John Ericsson, a view of Ericsson's caloric engine, a "sectional view" of CSS Virginia's casemate, and seven scenes on board USS Monitor. Engraved versions of the latter are reproduced as (counter-clockwise from upper left) Photo #s: NH 58850; NH 58854; NH 58856; NH 58855; NH 58851; NH 58857; NH 58858.

    Donation of F.L. Stickney, 1933. Another copy, without the stain in the lower right, was in the collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     

    For photographs taken on board this ship, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862) -- Views On Board -- Photographs.

    For links to more pictorial coverage of USS Monitor, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862-1862) -- Selected Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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