U.S.S. Isla de Luzon, cruiser taken at Manilla [i.e. Manila] by Dewey – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Isla de Luzon, cruiser taken at Manilla [i.e. Manila] by Dewey, [between 1898 and 1905] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a58400bf791e-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S.S. Isla de Luzon, cruiser taken at Manilla [i.e. Manila] by Dewey. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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U.S.S. Isla de Luzon, cruiser taken at Manilla [i.e. Manila] by Dewey
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The title identifies this as the Spanish gunboat *Isla de Luzon* after its capture at Manila, the port where Commodore George Dewey's squadron destroyed the Spanish fleet in May 1898. Several Spanish vessels were sunk or scuttled in Manila Bay, and the Americans later raised some of them for service. The subject headings point to the battle damage that marked the ship's condition at the time. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its photographs of American places and events, made the negative in the years following the war.
| Created / published | [between 1898 and 1905] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | 565 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021720. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Isla de Luzon (Gunboat) Gunboats--American. Spanish-American War, 1898--Destruction & pillage. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64767 |
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