Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
James River, Monitor U.S.S. Onondaga |
Dates of Creation |
1864 |
Scope & Content |
Altered artistic image taken from a stereograph of men rowing to the Monitor U.S.S. Onondaga. White pastel and graphite enhance some of the blurry image, giving it a more artistic and surreal quality than a photograph. Several men seated in a small rowboat getting ready to head out to a larger submarine boat and platform in the James River. |
Year Range from |
1864 |
Year Range to |
1884 |
Subjects |
Boats Rivers Rivers and streams Civil War Soldiers Iron |
Search Terms |
James River art flag Monitor Onondaga submarine iron clad rowboat soldiers Civil War river |
Collection |
Historical Society of Western Virginia |
Imagefile |
073\202001122.JPG |
Number of images |
1 |
Object Name |
Drawing |
Object ID |
2020.01.12.2 |
Extent of Description |
5.25 h x 6.625 at widest |