Lieutenant Dixon's wooden seat
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- Title:
- Lieutenant Dixon's wooden seat
- Date:
- 1860
- Description:
- Large plank of wood, possibly pine, with an associated detached smaller plank, found in the submarine bow interior. Possibly cut from the same wood as the crew bench, the two pieces were nailed together at some point to construct and hold in place against an iron pipe the main seat for Lieutenant George E. Dixon. Images show wood bench in its initial location within the submarine interior, wood bench with detached support prior to deconcretion and cleaning, and deconcreted and reconstructed wood pieces following conservation treatment with polyethylene glycol.
- Collection Title:
- Hunley Artifact Collection – Submarine Components and Tools
- Contributing Institution:
- Friends of the Hunley
- Media Type:
- Objects
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- H.L. Hunley (Submarine)
Dixon, George, -1864 - S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- HL-1964
- Date Digital:
- 2009-07-08; 2006-10-14
- Digitization Specifications:
- 1350 dpi, 24-bit depth, Nikon; 72 dpi, 24-bit depth, Fuji FinePixS2Pro
- Internet Media Type:
- image/jpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Digital image copyright 2013, Friends of the Hunley. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Friends of the Hunley at 843.743.4865.
- Admin ID:
- 32579
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