U.S.S. Dolphin – Historic Print
![U.S.S. Dolphin, [between 1885 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b0/b0115d0a9d36-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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A window into the past: U.S.S. Dolphin, preserved in this historic photograph. 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. Dolphin
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The Navy's *Dolphin* was a steel-hulled dispatch vessel rather than a battleship, a small, fast ship built for carrying messages and officials between ports. Its service in the 1880s and 1890s was part of a broader effort to rebuild the American fleet after decades of neglect, when the country was shifting from wooden sailing warships toward steam and steel. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass negative, was known for sending photographers across the country to record ships, towns and landscapes for sale as views. Because the negative's date is inferred from the company's 1901 catalog, the picture probably dates from around that time.
| Created / published | [between 1885 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Hart" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020361. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Dolphin (Gunboat) Gunboats--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 796 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63640 |
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