U.S.S. Texas – Historic Reproduction
(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. Texas. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Listed in a 1901 Detroit Publishing Company catalog as the cruiser *Concord*, this glass-plate negative actually shows the battleship *Texas*, one of the Navy's first modern steel battleships, completed in 1895. The mislabel is a useful reminder of how loosely early commercial photographers recorded warships, which were often hard to tell apart at a distance. The plate's 8 x 10 inch format and the Hart copyright notation reflect the large-format view-making of the period, when such images were sold as souvenirs and as records of the growing American fleet.
| Created / published | c1895. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Listed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901) as U.S.S. Concord. Copyright 1895 by Hart" and "403" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020331. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Texas (Battleship) Battleships--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 787 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63616 |
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