Collection Highlights
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.065.815.7
Medium:
Stereograph
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Luce Center
Metal fragment from U.S.S. Monitor
Object Number:
2008.42.394
Date:
ca. 1862
Medium:
Metal, paper
Dimensions:
0verall: 52.2 x 130.4mm (2 1/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Marks:
Paper tag: "PIECE OF THE/MONITOR."
Description:
Two conjoined metal pieces; according to the label affixed to one, these are pieces of the ironclad vessel, U.S. S. Monitor, which defeated the Confederate vessel Merrimac in 1862.
Gallery Label:
According to documentation in the Naval History Society records, this piece and three others were donated in 1921 by Harry Lydenberg, New York Public Library.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Naval History Society, 1925
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
