U.S.S. Iowa in dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Iowa in dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard, [between 1897 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/10/10dff7ec6dae-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. Iowa in dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 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. Iowa in dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard
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Here the USS Iowa sits in dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, its hull fully exposed in a way that ordinary views of a battleship at sea never allow. Once the basin was drained, crews could scrub, paint, and repair the sections normally hidden below the waterline. Iowa was commissioned in 1897, among the newest and largest battleships in the U.S. Navy, and she went on to serve in the Spanish-American War in 1898. The glass negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American cities, landscapes, and industry in the decades around 1900.
| Created / published | [between 1897 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 3" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020436. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Iowa (Battleship) Battleships--American. Naval yards & naval stations.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63689 |
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