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U.S.S. Alabama, broadside – Antique Wall Art

U.S.S. Alabama, broadside, [1905?] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Alabama, broadside, [1905?]. Historic photograph from the Battleships 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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U.S.S. Alabama, broadside comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The subject is the U.S.S. Alabama, photographed from the side in a broadside view that shows the full length of the hull, its main gun turrets, and the secondary batteries along the superstructure. The Alabama was one of the Illinois-class battleships of the U.S. Navy, commissioned in 1900, and pictures like this one documented the new steel fleet as the country expanded its naval power. This print comes from an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm whose large-format work recorded American landscapes, cities, and ships around the turn of the twentieth century.

Created / published[1905?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes2627" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034047. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsAlabama (Battleship) Battleships--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67183

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