I’m sad to say that our 2014 Civil War Lecture Series is winding down.
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Fair Winds and Following Seas
Posted onDr. Anna Holloway, our former Vice President of Museum Collections & Programs and Curator of the USSMonitorCenter started her new job at the National Park Service this week. While she is missed here at theMonitorCenter, we wish her well and hope that she is having a fantastic first week. Good luck Anna. We have no doubt you will be brilliant.
Fun Fact Friday
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This month’s fun fact is about our Great Hall of Steam exhibition, which is our gallery that includes many large ship models. What many may or may not know is that a good number of the models exhibited were built here at the museum. On July 19, 1932, we opened a ship model shop for the purpose of creating models that could be displayed.
When the work began, they decided to do models of contemporary ships so that the plans from the actual ships could be used. Most of these ended up being ships that had been built at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. The first model the shop started working on was that ofPresident Hooverof the Dollar Line, although a model of the tugJohn Twohy, Jr. was finished first.
Monitor Madness
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A recent acquisition offers a look at one way the USS Monitor entered into popular culture after the historic Battle at Hampton Roads in March 1862. Following the Civil War, images of the Monitor and variations on the name and style of ship were used for a variety of businesses and products, including telegraph equipment, windmills, cast iron stoves, patent medicines, silver mines, playing cards and produce, just to name a few.
The ironclad ships represented strength and innovation, two qualities many companies wished to highlight about their products.
It’s a spoon
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Christmas came early to theMonitor今年的中心。我们最近珀切斯e a refurbished Bruker Tracer III-SD portable XRF (x-ray fluorescence). We have been able to borrow one of these devices from Bruker in the past, and it is a fabulous piece of analytical equipment. You may remember thatwe talked about using one on the condenser tanka few months ago. Through non-destructive testing, which conservators are a big fan of, this machine will tell you the elements present in your sample, or in our case, artifact. There are some limitations, but it works really well with identifying metals. I had the chance to use the XRF less than a week after its arrival in the lab for just this purpose on a spoon I am currently treating.
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