U.S.S. Maine, bachelors' glee club – Historic Reproduction
(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. Maine, bachelors' glee club. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few shipboard portraits from the 1890s show off-duty life as plainly as this group of singers from the battleship U.S.S. Maine, a bachelors' glee club photographed in 1896. The Maine had been commissioned only the year before, in 1895, so the crew was still new to its ship. The image survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for large-format views of American places and people. Two years later the ship exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, an event that helped bring the United States into the Spanish-American War.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Hart" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020553. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Maine (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Seamen--American. Singers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 796 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63796 |
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