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[Charlestown Navy Yard from the water, Boston, Mass.] – Antique Wall Art

[Charlestown Navy Yard from the water, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Charlestown Navy Yard from the water, Boston, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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The cruiser New York sits at the left edge of this view of the Charlestown Navy Yard taken from the water, so the warship anchors the composition as much as the piers do. The yard, founded in 1800 on the Charlestown peninsula across the Charles River from downtown Boston, was one of the country's oldest federal shipbuilding and repair facilities, and in the 1900s it served a growing fleet of steel warships. The negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which recorded American cities, railroads and landscapes from about 1890 to 1924.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Cruiser New York" at left. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034145. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsNaval yards & naval stations. Piers & wharves. Cruisers (Warships)--American.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67239

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