U.S.S. Massachusetts in dry dock – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Massachusetts in dry dock, [between 1896 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/70/709df8cbd099-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. Massachusetts in dry dock
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The battleship *Massachusetts* sits in a dry dock in this view, its hull exposed above the floor of the basin while workers and equipment are arranged around it. She was commissioned in 1896 and later took part in the Spanish-American War, including the fighting at Santiago de Cuba in 1898. Photographs like this one were taken so that the navy and the public could see the condition of the ship's underwater hull, which had to be cleaned, scraped and painted regularly to stay seaworthy. The Detroit Publishing Company made the picture as part of its large body of views of American places, and its glass negative records the scale of the ship against the dock walls.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20578. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 832" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020579. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Massachusetts (Battleship : 1896-1920) Battleships--American. Naval yards & naval stations. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 793 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63822 |
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