Figurehead of U.S.S. Olympia, Boston Navy Yard – 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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Step back in time with Figurehead of U.S.S. Olympia, Boston Navy Yard, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Figurehead of U.S.S. Olympia, Boston Navy Yard
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A carved figurehead from the cruiser U.S.S. Olympia is the subject here, shown at the Boston Navy Yard rather than on deck. The Olympia was launched in San Francisco and commissioned in 1895, and she became famous as Commodore George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, the opening naval engagement of the Spanish-American War. The glass negative came from the Bain News Service, a New York wire photo agency, and the record's title comes from caption data the agency supplied that has not been verified, so the location and date are worth confirming. Ship ornaments like this were sometimes preserved ashore as relics of a vessel's service.
| Created / published | 11/4/01. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,154 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4554 |
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