Anna Holloway image collection on ironclad warships, 1889-1911.

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Holloway, Anna Gibson. Anna Holloway image collection on ironclad warships, 1889-1911.

Anna Holloway image collection on ironclad warships, 1889-1911.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775010560

This collection consists of late 19th century and early 20th century postcards, coffee cards, cigarette cards and stereographs depicting scenes from the Battle of Hampton Roads between US steam battery Monitor and CSS Virginia, as well as various memorial scenes of these and later U.S. Navy ironclads. There is one coffee card that has a collaged scene of various events in Virginia history. The collection is representative of pop culture imagery containing historical themes, specifically of nautical nature. Two of the postcards depict scenes on the Battle of Hampton Roads from two world expositions. At the 1907 Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, the "Monitor and Merrimac" building started as an exhibition that then travelled to other expositions across the country for the next 2 years (1907-1909). The second expo, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, was held in Seattle on the University of Washington campus from June 1 to October 16. The stereographs, one photographic and the other lithographic, are of the second generation of turreted ironclads built in the 1870s and 1880s. Both the monitor Terror and the monitor Puritan saw service during the Spanish American War, proving their effectiveness in coastal and harbor waters.

11 items.

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