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U.S.S. Buffalo, ship's company – Vintage Print

U.S.S. Buffalo, ship's company, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Buffalo, ship's company, [between 1890 and 1901]. Historic photograph from the Buffalo collection.

(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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This group portrait shows the ship's company of the U.S.S. Buffalo, the Navy cruiser named for the New York city that had sponsored it. The crew is posed as a formal assembly, a common practice when naval vessels and their men were photographed for records and for sale as souvenirs. The image dates to roughly 1890 to 1901, a period when the United States Navy was modernizing with steel warships and expanding its role abroad. The picture was made from a large 11 by 14 inch glass negative by a photographer associated with the Detroit Publishing Company, whose catalog listed it in 1901. Because the sailors are shown in a single frame, it offers a useful record of uniforms and shipboard life from that era.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Hart based on negatives D4-20267 and D4-20264 A. Listed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0625. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsBuffalo (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Seamen--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 767 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77564

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