U.S.S. Iowa, field gun – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Iowa, field gun, [between 1897 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2f/2fa66053fe24-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S.S. Iowa, field gun. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Iowa, field gun
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The subject is a field gun aboard the U.S.S. Iowa, the battleship commissioned in 1897 as the Navy's first large steel battleship of its class to carry the state's name. Field guns of this kind were light, portable pieces that sailors trained with for landing parties and shore duty, so the picture shows a part of ship life that is easy to overlook beside the battleship's heavy main armament. The glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose large-format views of American places and Navy ships were widely sold around 1900.
| Created / published | [between 1897 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 15" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020445. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Iowa (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Seamen--American. Cannons. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63697 |
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