U.S.S. Oregon, Capt. Barker and officers – Antique Print
![U.S.S. Oregon, Capt. Barker and officers, [between 1896 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/05/0561cbda76ce-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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Step back in time with U.S.S. Oregon, Capt. Barker and officers, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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U.S.S. Oregon, Capt. Barker and officers
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Captain Albert S. Barker is pictured here with the officers of the battleship Oregon, a ship built at San Francisco's Union Iron Works and commissioned in 1896. The Oregon became famous in 1898, when she sailed from the Pacific coast around South America to join the U.S. fleet off Cuba during the Spanish-American War, a voyage that helped turn public attention toward the new American battleships. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its photographs of American places and people around 1900, made the image, and the two near-identical negatives suggest the same group was photographed more than once.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Negatives are close variants. Attribution based on negative D4-20838. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Dup" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020841. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Barker, Albert Smith,--1843-1916. Oregon (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Military officers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64047 |
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