U.S.S. Dolphin – Historic Reproduction
![U.S.S. Dolphin, [between 1885 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/76/76674b3121de-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. Dolphin 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. Dolphin
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The U.S.S. Dolphin was a steel-hulled dispatch ship launched in 1884, built to carry messages and officials rather than to fight in a battle line. The catalog record calls it a gunboat, a loose label that reflects how the Navy grouped small warships in those years. This 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative dates from between about 1885 and 1901 and was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely recording American places and ships. The large format preserves fine detail in the hull and rigging.
| Created / published | [between 1885 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020355. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Dolphin (Gunboat) Gunboats--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 807 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63635 |
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