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U.S.S. Baltimore, ship's company – Antique Print

U.S.S. Baltimore, ship's company, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Baltimore, ship's company, [between 1890 and 1901]. Historic photograph from the Baltimore 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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Step back in time with U.S.S. Baltimore, ship's company, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few details of this crew portrait survive beyond the ship's name: the sailors of the U.S.S. Baltimore, a steel protected cruiser the Navy commissioned in 1890. The Detroit Publishing Company made the picture on an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative, and its catalog places it between 1890 and 1901, the years the ship was in service. Group portraits like this one were common in the era, when a ship's company often posed together on deck to mark a cruise or a homecoming. Viewers can still see the uniforms and the crowded arrangement of the men, which record the working life of an American warship at the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreGroup portraits.Portrait photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). X 162" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020010. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBaltimore (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Seamen--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63309

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