U.S.S. Brooklyn, signal party – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Brooklyn, signal party, [between 1896 and 1899] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a3/a3ec71e59189-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, signal party
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The men in this group portrait are members of a signal party aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn, an armored cruiser of the United States Navy, and the flags they handle were the navy's main means of relaying orders between ships at sea. The Brooklyn was commissioned in 1896 and saw service in the Spanish-American War in 1898, when fleet communication by flag hoist was essential in combat. The photograph was made on a glass dry plate by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose views of American places and people were widely sold in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1899] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20231. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020237. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Brooklyn (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Seamen--American. Signal flags. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 782 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63531 |
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