U.S.S. Cushing – Antique Print
![U.S.S. Cushing, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/74fdb0d34926-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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This historic photograph of U.S.S. Cushing brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Cushing
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Named for Lt. William B. Cushing, who slipped a spar torpedo under the Confederate ironclad *Albemarle* on the Roanoke River in 1864, this vessel belongs to the Navy's early torpedo-boat program of the 1890s. Such craft were fast and low-profile, built to strike larger warships with a single explosive charge, a role that seemed central to naval planning before the dreadnought era. The glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers recorded American ships and landscapes across these years, and its catalog-based date places it near the turn of the century.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Byron" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020341. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Cushing (Torpedo boat) Torpedo boats--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63623 |
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