U.S.S. Brooklyn, Boatswain Hill – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Brooklyn, Boatswain Hill, [between 1896 and 1899] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/04/040dec2e61cc-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. Brooklyn, Boatswain Hill, 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. Brooklyn, Boatswain Hill
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Boatswain Hill, a petty officer, is the subject of this portrait, and the armored cruiser *Brooklyn* is the setting that identifies it. The ship was commissioned in 1896, and in 1898 it served as Commodore Winfield Scott Schley's flagship at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American towns, landscapes and naval life widely in the 1890s and early 1900s, made the negative, which likely dates from the years just before that war.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1899] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-32235. 670" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020213. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Brooklyn (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Military officers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 797 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63508 |
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