U.S.S. Iowa, machine gun – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Iowa, machine gun, [between 1897 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5d/5d47d7d3dc92-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 U.S.S. Iowa, machine gun. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Iowa, machine gun
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Aboard the battleship *Iowa*, a machine gun and its crew are the focus of this glass-plate negative, which the Detroit Publishing Company photographed in the years around 1900. The *Iowa* was commissioned in 1897, one of the first large steel battleships of the modern U.S. Navy, and it fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Rapid-fire guns like this one were mounted on warships to defend against torpedo boats at close range. The sailors posed beside it show the everyday work of the ship's gun crews.
| Created / published | [between 1897 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020444. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Iowa (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Machine guns. Seamen--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63696 |
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