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U.S.S. Cincinnati – Vintage Print

U.S.S. Cincinnati, c1894. — historic photograph
U.S.S. Cincinnati, c1894.. Historic photograph from the Cincinnati collection.

(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. Cincinnati. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The cruiser pictured is the U.S.S. Cincinnati, a steel protected cruiser commissioned in 1894, the same year this glass negative is dated. The Navy built her as part of a push to replace aging wooden and early iron vessels with modern steel warships, and she later served in the Spanish-American War. The photograph comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely recording American landscapes, towns and ships in the 1890s and early 1900s. The negative's copyright notice, dated 1894, shows how quickly photographers captured new naval technology for a public eager to see it.

Created / publishedc1894.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Copyright 1894 by Hart" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020315. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCincinnati (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63602

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