U.S.S. Newark – Vintage Wall Art
(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 U.S.S. Newark. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The U.S.S. Newark was one of the early steel cruisers of the New Navy, a building program begun in the 1880s to replace the country's aging wooden fleet. Built by the Cramp shipyard in Philadelphia and commissioned in 1891, she was a protected cruiser meant for speed and long-range patrol rather than battle-line fighting. This glass negative, marked with a Detroit Publishing Company number and a New York notation, dates from about the time she entered service, when the Navy was still learning what its new steel hulls could do.
| Created / published | c1891. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | N.Y." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020638. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Notes | Copyright 1891 |
| Subjects | Newark (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63877 |
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