MAINE Monument unveiled - 1913 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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MAINE Monument unveiled - 1913
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The subject is the monument to the battleship Maine, a memorial to the sailors killed when the ship exploded in Havana harbor in February 1898. The monument was unveiled in 1913, fifteen years after the blast, and its dedication in New York that spring was a major civic event. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency whose glass negatives make up this collection, recorded such ceremonies for newspapers. The record gives little detail about the scene itself, so the crowd and the ceremony are best read from the negative.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14269 |
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