U.S.S. Olympia in Dewey Naval Parade – Antique Print
![U.S.S. Olympia in Dewey Naval Parade, [1899] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0c/0c4eff05f7cd-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S.S. Olympia in Dewey Naval Parade. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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U.S.S. Olympia in Dewey Naval Parade
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Caught in the foreground by a ferry named *Long Island*, the cruiser *Olympia* steams through the Dewey Celebration naval parade in New York Harbor in 1899. *Olympia* was Commodore George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, so the ship was the centerpiece of the welcome for the admiral after his victory. The parade drew large crowds to the waterfront, and the ferry's presence in the frame shows how the city's everyday harbor traffic shared the water with the warships. The photograph is a glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company.
| Created / published | [1899] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Long Island" on ferry boat in foreground. "Hart" and "1889" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020807. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Olympia (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American. Dewey Celebration, 1899. Naval parades & ceremonies. Ferries.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64012 |
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