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U.S.S. Maine, ship's company – Antique Print

U.S.S. Maine, ship's company, 1896 — historic photograph
U.S.S. Maine, ship's company, 1896. Historic photograph from the Battleships collection.

(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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A window into the past: U.S.S. Maine, ship's company, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This group portrait shows the ship's company of the U.S.S. Maine, the battleship photographed in 1896, two years before it became a turning point in American history. The picture survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative in the Detroit Publishing Company collection, a firm known for its large catalog of American views around 1900. Commissioned in 1895, the Maine was one of the Navy's newer steel battleships, and this crew portrait records the men who served aboard it. The ship exploded and sank in Havana Harbor in February 1898, an event that helped push the United States into war with Spain.

Created / published1896
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Hart based on negative D4-20545. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020547. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsMaine (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Seamen--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63792

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