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No. 566, Hull no. 3, April 25, '19. Virginia Shipbuilding Corp. – Vintage Photo Print

No. 566, Hull no. 3, April 25, '19. Virginia Shipbuilding Corp., [19]19 April 25. — historic photograph
No. 566, Hull no. 3, April 25, '19. Virginia Shipbuilding Corp., [19]19 April 25.. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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 rare historic photograph captures No. 566, Hull no. 3, April 25, '19. Virginia Shipbuilding Corp. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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No. 566, Hull no. 3, April 25, '19. Virginia Shipbuilding Corp.

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Hull No. 3 at the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation, photographed on April 25, 1919, documents a vessel from a yard on the Potomac at Alexandria. The company was one of many wartime builders that the U.S. Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation relied on to replace merchant tonnage lost to submarine attacks, and this picture was taken only months after the Armistice, while the program was still producing ships. The negative came from the National Photo Company, a Washington commercial studio whose work covers the capital and its surroundings in the 1910s and 1920s. Faint streaks across the glass come from deterioration in the original coating, not from the scene itself.

Created / published[19]19 April 25.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,455 × 5,089 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-260215

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