U.S. battleships saluting the Mayflower, Hampton Roads, Va. – Vintage Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures U.S. battleships saluting the Mayflower, Hampton Roads, Va. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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U.S. battleships saluting the Mayflower, Hampton Roads, Va.
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Here the presidential yacht *Mayflower* is the focus, with a line of U.S. battleships dressed for a salute as it passes through Hampton Roads, the broad anchorage at the mouth of the James and Elizabeth Rivers in Virginia. The *Mayflower* served as a presidential yacht during Theodore Roosevelt's administration, and the era's naval reviews and expositions often brought warships and official vessels together in these waters. The record suggests the ships may have been the Squadron of Evolution, a fleet that trained and showed the flag in the years before the Great White Fleet. The photograph was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose glass-plate views document American travel and naval life around 1907.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Possibly Squadron of Evolution. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022398. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Mayflower (Yacht) Battleships--American. Yachts.United States--Virginia--Hampton Roads. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 800 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-65347 |
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