U.S.S. Kearsarge, Sunday morning services – Historic Print
![U.S.S. Kearsarge, Sunday morning services, [between 1890 and 1894] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1a/1afe10a8da27-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. Kearsarge, Sunday morning services, 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. Kearsarge, Sunday morning services
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Sailors gather on the deck of the U.S.S. Kearsarge for Sunday morning services, a routine that structured life aboard American naval vessels of the period. The Kearsarge was a screw sloop-of-war best known for sinking the Confederate raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France, in June 1864, nearly three decades before this picture was made. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative, documented American landscapes, cities and institutions across the country in the 1890s, and its scenes of naval life are valuable for showing ordinary shipboard routines.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1894] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020474. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Kearsarge (Screw sloop-of-war) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Seamen--American. Religious services. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 803 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63721 |
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