File:USSMonitor1862.4.ws.jpg

USSMonitor1862.4.ws.jpg (740 × 600 pixels, file size: 84 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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English: USS Monitor crewmen cooking. USS Monitor, 1862 Crewmembers cooking on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. This view looks forward from the port quarter, with the port side blower hatch in the foreground, the two smokestacks in the middle distance and the turret beyond. The sailor standing atop the turret is holding a telescope. Note cookstove supported on bricks at left and awning above the turret.
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Source http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/monitor.htm; Courtesy of the Library of Congress. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo # NH 73688
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James F. Gibson  (1828–1905)  wikidata:Q38521022
 
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Jas. F. Gibson
Description American photographer and war photographer
Date of birth/death 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 1905 Edit this at Wikidata
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current18:29, 2 April 2007Thumbnail for version as of 18:29, 2 April 2007740 × 600 (84 KB)Editor at LargeLosslessly cropped caption bar
09:03, 26 April 2005Thumbnail for version as of 09:03, 26 April 2005740 × 625 (90 KB)WamesPhoto #: NH 73688 USS Monitor (1862-62) Crewmembers cooking on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson. This view looks forward from the port quarter, with the port side blower hatch in the foreground, the two s

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