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Armoured steel cruiser New York, United States Navy – Vintage Print

Armoured steel cruiser New York, United States Navy, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1893. — antique lithograph
Armoured steel cruiser New York, United States Navy, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1893.. Antique lithograph from the New York City 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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Step back in time with Armoured steel cruiser New York, United States Navy, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Among the new warships that drew public attention in the early 1890s, the armored cruiser *New York* stood out as a sign of a United States Navy being rebuilt after decades of neglect. This Currier & Ives lithograph shows her as a steel-hulled vessel, a break from the wooden and iron ships of earlier decades and a marker of America's return to serious naval construction. By 1893 the firm was past its peak, but it still issued topical prints like this one for a public eager to see the modern fleet. The ship went on to serve in the Spanish-American War, taking part in the fighting at Santiago de Cuba in 1898.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1893.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1890-1900.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0295.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,074 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110997

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