U.S.S. Vixen, 6 pounder gun – Vintage Wall Art
![U.S.S. Vixen, 6 pounder gun, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8e/8ef3a504ba2d-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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A window into the past: U.S.S. Vixen, 6 pounder gun, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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U.S.S. Vixen, 6 pounder gun
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Shown on deck with its 6-pounder gun, the U.S.S. Vixen was a small Navy gunboat, a class of vessel the United States relied on for coastal and river duty in the 1890s. Quick-firing guns of this size, usually Hotchkiss designs, were a common armament on American warships of that decade, and the photograph captures the sailors and the weapon they worked. The Detroit Publishing Company made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative in the years around 1900, when it was documenting American places and people for commercial sale. The record dates it between 1890 and 1901, based on the company's catalog.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). X 14" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020116. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Vixen (Gunboat) United States.--Navy. Gunboats--American. Artillery (Weaponry) Seamen--American. Interiors. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 793 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63424 |
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