[Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News. Va.] – Vintage Photo Print
![[Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News. Va.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/20/2082959fea09-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 [Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News. Va.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News. Va.]
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Two glass negatives, joined into a wide panorama, record the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company yard on the James River in Virginia, a works that by the early 1900s was building warships for the U.S. Navy. The company was established in 1886 under railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, and its dry docks allowed it to handle large hulls that few American yards could accommodate. Made between 1900 and 1910 by the Detroit Publishing Company, the paired plates convey the scale of the works in a way a single frame could not.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Panoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19075, 19074. 2550" on left negative; "G 25 [...] 1" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037087. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Boat & ship industry. Ships. Warships--American.United States--Virginia--Newport News. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-68452 |
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