Photo #: NH 45975
USS Monitor (1862)
Semi-scale model, made by Charles Wesly Crawford and exhibited
at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sanitary Fair during the Civil
War to raise money for the wounded and sick from the front.
Photograph by Purviance's Photographers, Pittsburgh.
Note models in the background, including sailboats, artillery
limbers, and a heavy Rodman-type cannon.
Courtesy of Captain G.W. Swartz.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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