New Ironsides

Object summary

Title: New Ironsides
Object ID: CC-T-0097
Date made: 1863
Place made: Unknown
Maker: unknown
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A sepia-toned, photo-processed reproduction of a painting of the USS 'New Ironsides.' She navigates forward so that she is seen from the front and port-broadside. Two men row in a small boat in the left foreground and sailing vessel is on the left side of the print. The 'New Ironsides' served in the American Civil War blockading Confederate ports. She was effective the blockading efforts due to her ability to fire her guns in rotation, bombarding a steady stream of fire on enemy fortifications.

Inscriptions

Type: stamp
Location: recto, top left
Text: Clark Collection MIT

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: "New Ironsides." Built by Wm. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. 1862 or '63

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: T-97

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: E-97-G [crossed out]

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