U.S.S. Olympia – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Olympia, [between 1895 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/23/236fd652b7d1-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. Olympia, 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. Olympia
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The cruiser *Olympia*, built at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco and commissioned in 1895, was a steel protected cruiser of the U.S. Navy. The ship became famous as Commodore George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay in May 1898, the opening action of the Spanish-American War. This 8 by 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers sold travel views of ships, towns and scenery to a national market around 1900. The picture dates to the late 1890s, when the new steel cruiser was among the Navy's most prominent vessels.
| Created / published | [between 1895 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Hart" and "1089" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020806. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Olympia (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American. Steamboats. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64011 |
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