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U.S.S. Hartford, inspection, looking aft., port side – Antique Wall Art

U.S.S. Hartford, inspection, looking aft., port side, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Hartford, inspection, looking aft., port side, [between 1890 and 1901]. Historic photograph from the Hartford 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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This rare historic photograph captures U.S.S. Hartford, inspection, looking aft., port side in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Aft along the port side of the U.S.S. *Hartford*, this view captures a formal inspection with sailors and ship's rigging laid out for the official eye. The *Hartford* was a wooden sloop-of-war, and she is best remembered as David Farragut's flagship at the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, when he reportedly ordered his fleet forward with the words "Damn the torpedoes." Decades later she served in a training and receiving role, and the Detroit Publishing Company, which made many photographs of American ships and cities in this period, recorded her during those years. The date is an estimate based on the company's 1901 catalog, so the picture likely dates from the final decade of the nineteenth century.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020406. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsUnited States.--Navy. Government vessels--American. Military inspections. Seamen--American. Ship equipment & rigging.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 807 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63655

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