Credit: | unknown photographer |
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Date: | 1870-1879 |
Negative Size: | stereo |
Equipment: | crate; rope |
Military Units: | US Navy |
Transports: | monitor; USS Dictator |
Sources: | Naval History and Heritage Command |
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File Details: AZLEm, 1200 DPI, TIFF, Halftone Photograph, 19.9 Mb
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Category Field Photographs
Tags crate, monitor, rope, unknown photographer, US Navy, USS Dictator
Image ID: AZLE
1395. Broadside Deck View of Monitor “Dictator.” [Littleton View Company stereo card]
Naval History and Heritage Command says: USS Dictator (1864-1883). View on deck, looking forward on the starboard side, while the ship was off an east coast Navy yard, circa the 1870s. Note the lightweight flying deck and bridge wings, wooden pilothouse mounted atop the gun turret, muzzle of a XV-inch Dahlgren gun visible in the turret gunport, davits, stanchions, and wooden boxes on deck.
Unidentified location.