U.S.S. OREGON. Pounder and gunner – Historic Print
![U.S.S. OREGON. Pounder and gunner, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/98/98bf2193bda9-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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U.S.S. OREGON. Pounder and gunner 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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U.S.S. OREGON. Pounder and gunner
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The title points to two members of a gun crew aboard the U.S.S. Oregon, a battleship commissioned in 1896 and best known for its voyage around South America to join the Spanish-American War in 1898. The record does not give a date, so the picture's exact moment is unknown. Detroit Publishing Company photographers worked mainly from the 1890s into the 1920s, making their images useful for showing everyday life and equipment in the early Navy. Notice the physical labor of the work, with one sailor driving the heavy shell home and another aiming the gun.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Guns, Naval; Ships, USS; Navy, U.S. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144792 |
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