Image of the naval battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (also called the Merrimac or Merrimack) from the coastline during the American Civil War; Union officers on horseback view ironclad warships attacking a Union battleship while soldiers and civilians rescue sailors from the water with lifeboats; soldiers fire cannons from fort at right. "Copyrighted 1889 by Kurz & Allison - Chicago, U.S.A."--text, bottom right margin.
"Fought March 9th 1862 at Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, Va."--text. bottom left margin.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 56.52 x 71.76 cm (22 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.)
Battles--Pictorial works Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862--Pictorial works Monitor (Ironclad)--Pictorial works Naval battles--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Virginia (Ironclad)--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Large Size American Civil War The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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