U.S.S. New York – Historic Print
![U.S.S. New York, [between 1893 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/00dc7d2c3876-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: U.S.S. New York, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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U.S.S. New York
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The armored cruiser USS *New York* was one of the steel warships the U.S. Navy commissioned in the early 1890s, as the country began building a modern fleet. The ship later saw action in the Spanish-American War of 1898, when it fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. These two close-variant glass negatives, measuring 8 by 10 inches, were made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of ships and cities to a wide public. The company's 1901 catalog helps date the pair to the late 1890s or early 1900s, a period when American naval power was becoming a source of national pride.
| Created / published | [between 1893 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20718. Negatives are close variants. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020716. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | New York (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 782 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63924 |
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