U.S.S. Vermont, Capt. [Joseph N.] Miller – Historic Reproduction
![U.S.S. Vermont, Capt. [Joseph N.] Miller, [between 1892 and 1894] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/67/677c10645928-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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Step back in time with U.S.S. Vermont, Capt. [Joseph N.] Miller, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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U.S.S. Vermont, Capt. [Joseph N.] Miller
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Captain Joseph N. Miller, a career naval officer born in 1836, stands for this portrait taken aboard or beside the U.S.S. *Vermont*, the ship he commanded. By the early 1890s the *Vermont* had left active fighting service and was used as a receiving ship at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where new enlisted men were processed before assignment to other vessels. The Detroit Publishing Company, known for its large-format views of American places and people, made the glass negative, and the picture gives a rare formal record of a naval commander at a moment when the Navy was moving from sail and wood toward steel warships.
| Created / published | [between 1892 and 1894] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021034. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Miller, Joseph Nelson,--1836-1909. Vermont (Receiving ship) United States.--Navy. Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.) Military officers--American.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 825 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64216 |
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