Dry dock no. 2, Norfolk Navy Yard, Va. – Antique Print
![Dry dock no. 2, Norfolk Navy Yard, Va., [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5c/5c31ba6b3dc7-L.webp)
(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 Dry dock no. 2, Norfolk Navy Yard, Va.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Dry dock no. 2, Norfolk Navy Yard, Va.
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Dry dock no. 2 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, across the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, Virginia, was one of the working docks that let the Navy repair and refit its warships in the years around 1900. Dry docks were built as enclosed basins that could be pumped empty, so a hull resting on the blocks could be scraped, painted and repaired above the waterline. The Norfolk yard had been a center of naval work since the early 1800s, and its docks were central to keeping the fleet in service. This glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled the country recording towns, industry and waterfronts in the decades before 1910.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1906] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Notes | G 2521" on negative. Date based on Detroit |
| Subjects | Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Naval yards & naval stations.United States--Virginia--Portsmouth. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-61916 |
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