U.S.S. Marblehead – Historic Print
![U.S.S. Marblehead, [between 1894 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa1a55217c8a-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. Marblehead. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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U.S.S. Marblehead
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The subject here is the U.S.S. *Marblehead*, a steel protected cruiser of the United States Navy, rather than a generic warship. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American landmarks, ships and scenery from the 1890s into the 1920s, made this 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative in the years between 1894 and 1901. The ship was built in the early 1890s as the Navy began replacing its aging wooden fleet with modern steel vessels. Its service in the Caribbean during the Spanish-American War gave it a place in the naval history of that period. Glass plates like this one captured fine detail, so the photograph preserves the ship's rigging, hull lines and deck structures.
| Created / published | [between 1894 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20571. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020573. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Marblehead (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63816 |
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