U.S.S. Brooklyn pay office – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Brooklyn pay office, [between 1896 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9c8c9269b595-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. Brooklyn pay office comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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U.S.S. Brooklyn pay office
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Inside the cruiser U.S.S. *Brooklyn*, a ship's pay office was a small, busy workplace where officers and crew drew and settled their wages, and this view records one of those compartments. The *Brooklyn* was an armored cruiser commissioned in 1896, and she became one of the best-known ships of the U.S. Navy after she fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made many photographs of American ships, towns and landscapes around 1900, produced the image as a glass dry plate negative. Two versions survive, one of them reversed left to right, so the photographer or printer evidently made more than one exposure of the scene.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Negatives are variants; B negative is frame 1A-14052. B negative image laterally reversed. Dup" on B negative; "2" on A negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020185. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Brooklyn (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Offices. Military officers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63478 |
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