U.S.S. Brooklyn, a little game – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Brooklyn, a little game, [between 1896 and 1899] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/68/682e78ad6993-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. Brooklyn, a little game. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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U.S.S. Brooklyn, a little game
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Sailors crowded around a card game aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn offer a glimpse of off-duty life below decks, away from the guns and drills that usually define photographs of warships. The Brooklyn was a steel armored cruiser commissioned in 1896, and it later served as Commodore Winfield Scott Schley's flagship at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. The Detroit Publishing Company made this glass-plate negative in the late 1890s, when it was documenting American places and institutions on a large scale.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1899] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20231. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020251. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Brooklyn (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Seamen--American. Card games. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Interiors. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63545 |
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