U.S.S. Texas, quarter deck, looking forward – Historic Reproduction
![U.S.S. Texas, quarter deck, looking forward, [between 1895 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8b/8b4f3175789d-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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This historic photograph of U.S.S. Texas, quarter deck, looking forward brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Texas, quarter deck, looking forward
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Here the camera looks forward along the quarterdeck of the U.S.S. Texas, a second-class battleship commissioned in 1895 that became one of the more celebrated ships of the Spanish-American War in 1898. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American landmarks and naval vessels for tourist views and published them widely, made this glass negative, and its catalog numbering places the picture in the years just before 1901. Shots like this one, taken on deck, show how crews worked and lived aboard the steel-hulled warships of the period, with the ship's gun mounts, rigging, and open deck space laid out in the foreground.
| Created / published | [between 1895 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Hart" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020995. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Texas (Battleship) Battleships--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 798 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64181 |
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