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USS MONITOR search - commemorative sonnet, 1974

Object summary

Title
USS MONITOR search - commemorative sonnet, 1974
Object ID
HEE-SC-02562
Date made
1974-05
Place made

United States

Maker
Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Object type
Color slide
Major collection
Technology
Photography
Named collection
Harold E. Edgerton Collection
On view
No
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Description

Text of a commemorative sonnet titled "MONITOR, April 5, 1974", written by Norman G. Cubberly of Miami, FL, while on board the research vessel ALCOA SEAPROBE during the MONITOR search project. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten red marker
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
written on SEA PROBE.
Type
handwritten red marker
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
74
Type
handwritten red marker
Location
obverse bottom
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
EDGERTON
Type
printed black
Location
obverse bottom
Text
26
Type
printed black
Location
obverse bottom
Text
MAY 74 N4

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