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[U.S.S. Chicago, Admiral Schley and Admiral Philip going below] – Historic Print

[U.S.S. Chicago, Admiral Schley and Admiral Philip going below], 1899 — historic photograph
[U.S.S. Chicago, Admiral Schley and Admiral Philip going below], 1899. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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 [U.S.S. Chicago, Admiral Schley and Admiral Philip going below] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Two admirals, Winfield Scott Schley and John W. Philip, are shown heading below deck aboard the cruiser U.S.S. Chicago in 1899. Both had gained wide public attention during the Spanish-American War of 1898, when Schley commanded the naval forces at Santiago de Cuba and Philip captained the battleship Texas there. Chicago was one of the steel cruisers of the modern U.S. Navy that were built in the 1880s and 1890s, and the picture offers a rare record of senior officers moving through a warship's interior. The glass negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose large-format views documented American places and people around the turn of the century.

Created / published1899
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032269. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsSchley, Winfield Scott,--1839-1911. Philip, John W.,--1840-1900. Chicago (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Admirals--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65902

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