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[Sandy Bay and North Atlantic squadron, Rockport, Mass.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Sandy Bay and North Atlantic squadron, Rockport, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Sandy Bay and North Atlantic squadron, Rockport, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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[Sandy Bay and North Atlantic squadron, Rockport, Mass.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Sandy Bay and North Atlantic squadron, Rockport, Mass.]

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Only the left half of this two-part panorama survives in the collection, so the view stops short of the ships at anchor in Sandy Bay off Rockport, Massachusetts. The North Atlantic Squadron of the U.S. Navy visited Cape Ann in these years, and its warships in the sheltered bay drew attention from local residents and photographers. The picture is an 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose large-format views of American places and events were widely sold in the decade before 1910. Its catalog number places it within that company's commercial output.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Originally the left section of a two-part panorama; right section not in collection. 3450" and "2-L" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037116. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsGovernment vessels--American. Harbors.United States--Massachusetts--Rockport.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68492

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