U.S.S. Maine, marine skirmish drill – Historic Reproduction
![U.S.S. Maine, marine skirmish drill, [1896?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a7/a73909929c5e-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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Step back in time with U.S.S. Maine, marine skirmish drill, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Aboard the battleship Maine, a group of Marines works through a skirmish drill, spreading out and advancing in loose, staggered lines rather than the close ranks of older parade-ground formations. The ship had been commissioned in 1895, so this scene, dated around 1896, shows a relatively new vessel whose crew was still developing its training routines. Ships' Marines formed a small landing force that guarded the vessel and could fight ashore, and skirmish drill prepared them for open-ground combat. The glass negative is attributed to the Detroit Publishing Company, whose large-format plates recorded American places and daily life in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
| Created / published | [1896?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20553. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020565. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Maine (Battleship) United States.--Marine Corps. Shooting. Soldiers--American. Military training. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63808 |
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