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U.S.S. San Francisco, a group of sailors – Antique Print

U.S.S. San Francisco, a group of sailors, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. San Francisco, a group of sailors, [between 1890 and 1901]. Historic photograph from the San Francisco 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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A window into the past: U.S.S. San Francisco, a group of sailors, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Sailors from the U.S.S. San Francisco gather for this group portrait, the crew of a steel protected cruiser the Navy commissioned in 1890. The ship spent much of the decade in Pacific waters and later served in Commodore George Dewey's squadron at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The glass-plate negative was made by the Detroit Photographic Company, whose views of American ships, towns and landscapes later became part of the Detroit Publishing Company collection. Portraits like this one record the men who crewed such vessels, whose names are rarely preserved.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Photographic Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020950. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSan Francisco (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Seamen.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-64145

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