U.S.S. Oregon, 6-pounder and crew – Historic Print
![U.S.S. Oregon, 6-pounder and crew, [between 1896 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/98/985655002f5f-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. Oregon, 6-pounder and crew, 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. Oregon, 6-pounder and crew
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The USS *Oregon* is best known for its 1898 voyage, when the battleship sailed from the Pacific coast around South America to join the fleet off Cuba during the Spanish-American War, a passage of roughly 14,000 miles. This view shows one of the ship's 6-pounder guns, a quick-firing weapon meant to counter torpedo boats, with its crew standing by. The Detroit Publishing Company made the glass-plate negative, and its views of American places and people were widely sold as postcards and lantern slides. The record dates the image between 1896 and 1901, which places it in the years just after the *Oregon* entered service.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20833. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Oct. 3" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020837. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Oregon (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Artillery (Weaponry) Seamen--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 797 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64042 |
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