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U.S.S. Oregon, a gun crew, Battle of Santiago – Antique Print

U.S.S. Oregon, a gun crew, Battle of Santiago, [1898] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Oregon, a gun crew, Battle of Santiago, [1898]. 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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This picture shows a gun crew aboard the battleship U.S.S. Oregon, the ship whose long voyage from the Pacific to the Caribbean made it famous during the Spanish-American War. Oregon sailed around South America to join the American fleet off Cuba, arriving in time for the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on July 3, 1898, where the Spanish squadron was destroyed. The photograph was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its large catalog of American views, and its glass negative preserves the men in their working clothes beside the ship's guns. Such crew portraits are valuable today because they show the ordinary sailors who carried out the battle.

Created / published[1898]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesHart" and "915" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020866. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsOregon (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Seamen--American. Santiago, Battle of, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1898.Cuba--Santiago de Cuba.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-64076

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