U.S.S. Bancroft – Vintage Wall Art
![U.S.S. Bancroft, [between 1893 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa4dedaf269e-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. Bancroft. 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. Bancroft
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The subject here is the gunboat U.S.S. Bancroft, named for George Bancroft, the Secretary of the Navy who founded the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. The ship was a steel gunboat of the early 1890s, and this view was made on an 8 x 10 inch glass plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers recorded American places, ships and people for commercial sale. The plate's catalog date falls between 1893 and 1901, a period when the Navy was modernizing its fleet after decades of wooden vessels. Its steel hull and gun armament reflect that shift.
| Created / published | [between 1893 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020140. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Bancroft (Gunboat) Gunboats--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 777 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63442 |
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