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Launch of the great battleship IOWA – Vintage Wall Art

Launch of the great battleship IOWA, c1896. — historic photograph
Launch of the great battleship IOWA, c1896.. Historic photograph from the Battleships 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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Launch of the great battleship IOWA comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Launch of the great battleship IOWA

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This stereograph records the launch of the battleship Iowa, which slid down the ways at a Philadelphia shipyard in 1896. The Navy's new steel battleships of that decade were a major public event, and crowds often gathered for launchings like this one. The card was issued by Griffith & Griffith, a commercial publisher of stereoscopic views. Its two nearly identical images, meant to be viewed together in a stereoscope, would have given viewers a sense of depth and of the ship's great bulk on the slipway.

Created / publishedc1896.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsCopyright by Griffith & Griffith, no. X367. Caption card tracings: Ships--Launchings 1896; Ships--U.S. Govt.; Photog. I; Ships--U.S...--IOWA; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,442 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134988

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