U.S.S. Thetis – Antique Print
![U.S.S. Thetis, [between 1884 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/71/719dc64ac0ef-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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A window into the past: U.S.S. Thetis, preserved in this historic photograph. 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. Thetis
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The *Thetis* was a Dundee-built whaler that the U.S. Navy bought in 1884 for the relief of Adolphus Greely's stranded Arctic expedition. Under Winfield Scott Schley, she reached the survivors at Cape Sabine that summer, and the rescue made the ship widely known. Her later service in Alaskan and Bering Sea waters tied her to the federal government's growing presence in the North. This Detroit Publishing Company view, made from a glass negative, dates from the years when the ship was still in government hands and shows her as she looked in working service.
| Created / published | [between 1884 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021020. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Thetis (Ship) Government vessels--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 779 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64204 |
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