U.S.S. Nashville, I christen thee Nashville"" – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Nashville, I christen thee Nashville"", [1895] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/76/76177297bf76-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. Nashville, I christen thee Nashville"" comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A sponsor's formal words, "I christen thee Nashville," are printed right on this view, tying it to a specific launch rather than a generic shipyard scene. The gunboat was built at Newport News, Virginia, where the Newport News shipyard had become one of the country's leading builders of steel warships. Launched in 1895, the Nashville later served in the Spanish-American War in 1898, operating off Cuba. The Detroit Publishing Company, whose glass-plate negatives recorded American towns, industry and travel around 1900, made the negative.
| Created / published | [1895] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Hart" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020634. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Nashville (Gunboat) Gunboats--American. Launchings.United States--Virginia--Newport News. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 756 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63873 |
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