PRINCE ADALBERT German heavy cruiser – Vintage Print
(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 PRINCE ADALBERT German heavy cruiser. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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PRINCE ADALBERT German heavy cruiser
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Prince Adalbert, the ship named in this negative's title, was a German armored cruiser of the Prinz Adalbert class, launched in 1901 for the Imperial German Navy. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news pictures from the early 1900s, recorded this title from caption data that the Library of Congress describes as unverified, so the identification deserves some caution. Warships of this period were popular subjects for press photographers, who saw them as emblems of national strength in the years before the First World War. The ship itself was sunk by a British submarine in the Baltic Sea in October 1915.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,273 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21480 |
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