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U.S.S. New Orleans – Historic Print

U.S.S. New Orleans, [1898?] — historic photograph
U.S.S. New Orleans, [1898?]. Historic photograph from the New Orleans 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S.S. New Orleans. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This view of the cruiser U.S.S. New Orleans was made from an 8 x 10 inch glass negative, a format that gave photographers sharp detail for ship portraits. The catalog date is marked with a question mark, so it is best read as a late 1890s approximation, a period when the U.S. Navy was modernizing its fleet with steel cruisers. The ship took her name from the Louisiana port city, and in that era naval vessels named for American cities were often shown to the public at harbor calls and celebrations. The picture is part of the Detroit Publishing Company Collection, a body of photographs that documented American places and everyday life for commercial sale around the turn of the twentieth century.

Created / published[1898?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
NotesHart
SubjectsNew Orleans (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63380

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