U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard company drill – Antique Print
![U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard company drill, [1897?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/73/736581ed7aea-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. Brooklyn, Marine guard company drill
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The subject here is a company of Marines drilling aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn, a protected cruiser of the U.S. Navy, which was commissioned in 1896. Shipboard Marine guard companies handled ceremonial duties, sentry posts and landing drills, and a drill like this one shows the discipline the Corps was known for at the close of the nineteenth century. The glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American places and people for commercial sale in the 1890s and early 1900s. The date of about 1897 is an estimate, so the picture is best read as a snapshot of the late-1890s peacetime navy just before the Spanish-American War.
| Created / published | [1897?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20231. 711" and "2" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020233. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Brooklyn (Cruiser) United States.--Marine Corps. Military training. Soldiers--American. Cruisers (Warships)--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63527 |
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