U.S.S. Maine, receiving a visator [i.e. visitor] – Historic Print
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(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, receiving a visator [i.e. visitor], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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U.S.S. Maine, receiving a visator [i.e. visitor]
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A visitor is received aboard the battleship Maine in this view, a scene of formal ceremony on a warship of the late 1890s. The Maine was commissioned in 1895 and was among the newest and most powerful vessels in the United States Navy at the time. Its later fate gives the picture added weight: the ship exploded and sank in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, an event that helped push the country into the Spanish-American War. The Detroit Publishing Company made the glass negative, and its date of about 1896 is an estimate.
| Created / published | [1896?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20553. 521" and "3" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020567. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Maine (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Military officers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 796 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63810 |
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