STRATHNAVER launch – Antique Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of STRATHNAVER launch. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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STRATHNAVER launch
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This glass negative is titled for the launch of the *Strathnaver*, a name taken from a Scottish Highland glen and used by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for several of its liners. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data that Bain News Service applied to the negatives, so the exact vessel and occasion are open to question. Launch ceremonies were a staple of the Bain agency's work, which supplied New York newspapers with news photographs from the early 1900s through the 1920s. Pictures of this kind usually show the hull, the crowd, and the christening party, so the scene offers a useful view of shipbuilding ceremony in that era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,754 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29652 |
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