U.S.S. Miantonomoh – Historic Reproduction
(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. Miantonomoh, 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. Miantonomoh
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Unlike the battleships of its day, the U.S.S. *Miantonomoh* was a double-turret monitor, with its two heavy gun turrets set low in the hull, a design that favored a low profile over speed or open decks. The ship was named for Miantonomo, a 17th-century Narragansett sachem, and it served in the late 19th-century American steel navy as the country began building a modern fleet. These three glass negatives, made around 1892 by the Detroit Publishing Company, are close variants of one another, and one is inscribed with a copyright date of 1892. Comparing the small differences between them shows how the photographers framed the same vessel from slightly different positions.
| Created / published | c1892. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | have title: U.S. double turret monitor Miantonomoh. X 178" on A negative; "X 179" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020036. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Notes | Negatives are close variants. B and C, inscribed copyright 1892 by Hart |
| Subjects | Miantonomoh (Monitor) Turret ships--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 793 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63334 |
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