U.S.S. Iowa, peeling spuds – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Iowa, peeling spuds, [between 1897 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/48/48cbf1d18d31-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S.S. Iowa, peeling spuds. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sailors aboard the battleship U.S.S. Iowa turn their attention to a heap of potatoes in this 8 by 10 inch glass-plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company. Peeling vegetables for a crew of several hundred was a daily chore on steel warships of the period, and the scene shows how this routine work ran alongside the business of a fighting ship. Iowa, commissioned in 1897, later saw action in the Spanish-American War in 1898, and images like this one record the ordinary daily life of the men who served aboard her.
| Created / published | [between 1897 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020447. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Iowa (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Seamen--American. Galleys (Ship kitchens) Potatoes. Military cookery. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 798 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63699 |
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