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Dining and billiard room on British ship, RENOWN – Antique Wall Art

Dining and billiard room on British ship, RENOWN, 1919 Nov. 13. — historic photograph
Dining and billiard room on British ship, RENOWN, 1919 Nov. 13.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 Dining and billiard room on British ship, RENOWN in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Dining and billiard room on British ship, RENOWN

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This photograph shows the dining and billiard room aboard HMS *Renown*, a British battlecruiser completed in 1916, and the combined space offers a rare look at the comforts available to officers and guests on a large warship. *Renown* later carried royal and diplomatic passengers in the years after the First World War, and interiors like this one were meant to reassure those passengers about life at sea. The print comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a news photographer whose pictures were circulated to newspapers, so it was likely intended to show a general audience what the ship's interiors looked like in November 1919.

Created / published1919 Nov. 13.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Billiards--1919; Ships--RENOWN; Dining rooms--1919; Games--; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,130 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156201

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