[Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News. Va.] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News. Va.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/839ae30b0816-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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[Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News. Va.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News. Va.]
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Two glass negatives joined into a panorama show the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company yard on Hampton Roads in Virginia, a long stretch of waterfront that the wide format lets the viewer take in at once. The company was founded in 1886 and grew into one of the country's major shipbuilders, and by the early 1900s its docks were producing merchant vessels and warships for the expanding U.S. Navy. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across the country to record towns, industry and scenery around 1900, made the image.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Panoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19075, 19074. 2550" on left negative; "G 25 [...] 1" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037087. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Boat & ship industry. Ships. Warships--American.United States--Virginia--Newport News. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-68453 |
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