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U.S.S. Pensacola, hoisting the launch – Historic Reproduction

U.S.S. Pensacola, hoisting the launch, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Pensacola, hoisting the launch, [between 1890 and 1901]. 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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The Navy's steel cruiser *Pensacola* is the ship named here, and the picture shows her crew at work hoisting one of her boats, the launch, back aboard. Ship's boats were a daily part of naval life, used for ferrying officers and stores and for landing parties, and raising them by davit or derrick took coordinated teamwork from the seamen on deck. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass-plate negative in the 1890s, sold views of American ships, ports and people to a wide public. Its record dates the plate to roughly 1890 to 1901, a period when the steel-hulled Navy was taking shape, so the scene offers a close look at late nineteenth-century shipboard routine.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). X 155" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020091. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPensacola (Frigate) United States.--Navy. Warships--American. Seamen--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63399

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