U.S.S. Brooklyn, Asst. Engineer Ryan – Vintage Wall Art
![U.S.S. Brooklyn, Asst. Engineer Ryan, [between 1896 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8b/8b57ae19da3b-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S.S. Brooklyn, Asst. Engineer Ryan. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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U.S.S. Brooklyn, Asst. Engineer Ryan
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Assistant Engineer Ryan is pictured here as a member of the crew of the armored cruiser U.S.S. Brooklyn, a ship named for the New York City borough and built in the late 1890s. The Brooklyn was among the Navy's most celebrated cruisers after it took part in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba in 1898, during the Spanish-American War. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its color and black-and-white views of the United States, made this large glass-plate negative sometime between 1896 and 1901. Portraits like this one give a rare personal face to a ship's engineering staff, who kept the cruiser's machinery running.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | 657" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020221. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Brooklyn (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Military officers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 789 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63516 |
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