U.S.S. San Francisco, Commodore Fife leaving the ship – Historic Reproduction
![U.S.S. San Francisco, Commodore Fife leaving the ship, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/62573251dbdd-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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U.S.S. San Francisco, Commodore Fife leaving the ship 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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U.S.S. San Francisco, Commodore Fife leaving the ship
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The scene shows Commodore Fife leaving the U.S.S. San Francisco, with a saluting party marking his departure from the steel cruiser, which the Navy commissioned in 1890. Such farewells were formal rituals of naval life, when officers and crew turned out to honor a senior man as he went over the side. The Detroit Publishing Company made the picture, and its photographers documented American places and people widely around the turn of the century. This glass negative has a visible break that was repaired with tape to a second sheet of glass, a reminder of how fragile these plates were.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Negative broken and taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020945. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | San Francisco (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Saluting. Military officers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64141 |
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