U.S.S. Iowa, pig taken from Spanish cruiser [Cristobal] Colon – Historic Print
![U.S.S. Iowa, pig taken from Spanish cruiser [Cristobal] Colon, [ca. 1898] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/12/12432bb0b9e3-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. Iowa, pig taken from Spanish cruiser [Cristobal] Colon, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Iowa, pig taken from Spanish cruiser [Cristobal] Colon
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A pig taken from the Spanish cruiser Cristóbal Colón gives this view of the battleship Iowa an unusually homely character. The Colón was one of the Spanish warships lost at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba in July 1898, when a U.S. Navy squadron under William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley destroyed the Spanish fleet off Cuba's southern coast. Scenes of everyday shipboard life like this one were popular with the public during and after the war. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sold views of American places and events, issued the picture as a glass plate negative.
| Created / published | [ca. 1898] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020462. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Iowa (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Swine. Seamen--American. Battleships--American. Santiago, Battle of, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1898. Naval warfare. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63715 |
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