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- GLC#
- GLC02881.16-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1862
- Author/Creator
- Currier & Ives
- Title
- Terrific combat between the "Monitor" 2 guns & "Merrimac" 10 guns
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 lithograph : col. Height: 25.3 cm, Width: 35.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Print is mounted. Title continues: "in Hampton Roads, March 9th 1862. In which the little "Monitor" whipped the "Merrimac" and the whole "School" of Rebel Steamers." Caption above the title reads: "The first fight between iron clad ships of war." Depicts the two ironclads almost touching. The "Merrimac" is firing a broadside at the low-lying "Monitor." Smoke from the cannon blasts dominates the image. In the background can be seen the USS "Minnesota" and 2 rebel steamers, labeled below image.
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