U.S.S. Marietta arriving at Curacao – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: U.S.S. Marietta arriving at Curacao, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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U.S.S. Marietta arriving at Curacao
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The picture shows the U.S.S. Marietta arriving at Curaçao, the Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela, in June 1908. The Caribbean was a regular route for American naval vessels then, and the island's harbor at Willemstad was a familiar port of call for ships passing through the region. The image survives as a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain News Service supplied the title, which its records mark as unverified, so the ship's identity and the scene are best read as the caption gives them.
| Created / published | June, 1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,253 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3341 |
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