Divine service on the U.S.S. Texas – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Divine service on the U.S.S. Texas. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Divine service on the U.S.S. Texas
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Aboard the battleship USS Texas, a congregation of sailors gathers for a Sunday worship service, captured on a glass-plate negative dated August 8, 1897. The Texas was commissioned in 1895 and was among the new steel warships that helped modernize the U.S. Navy in the years before the Spanish-American War. Religious services like this one were a regular part of shipboard routine, bringing enlisted men and officers together in a formal, disciplined setting. The image comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American places and everyday life around the turn of the twentieth century.
| Created / published | 1897 Aug. 8. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Hart" and "751" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 32356. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Texas (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Seamen--American. Clergy. Religious services. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-65977 |
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