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U.S.S. Baltimore, chief engineer – Vintage Print

U.S.S. Baltimore, chief engineer, 1900 — historic photograph
U.S.S. Baltimore, chief engineer, 1900. Historic photograph from the Baltimore collection.

(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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The sitter was chief engineer of the cruiser USS Baltimore, and the record names the ship directly. Commissioned in 1890, the steel protected cruiser served on the Asiatic Station, and in 1900 it took part in operations in northern China during the Boxer Rebellion. Chief engineers kept the boilers and engines running, a demanding job carried out below deck, far from the attention given to the ship's officers on the bridge. The picture is one of the 8 by 10 inch glass negatives made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American people and places around 1900.

Created / published1900
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 020138. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsBaltimore (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Military officers--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63440

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