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[U.S.S. Brooklyn, Ensign Roys] – Historic Print

[U.S.S. Brooklyn, Ensign Roys], [between 1896 and 1899] — historic photograph
[U.S.S. Brooklyn, Ensign Roys], [between 1896 and 1899]. Historic photograph from the Brooklyn 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. Brooklyn, Ensign Roys]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A portrait of Ensign Roys, identified with the U.S.S. Brooklyn, the protected cruiser commissioned in 1896 and named for the city of Brooklyn. The ship took part in the Spanish-American War in 1898, including the Santiago campaign in Cuba, so a naval officer photographed on her in these years would have served during a busy and consequential period for the Navy. The picture is a glass dry-plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for large-format views of American places and people around the turn of the century. Because the title was supplied from the original jacket and the attribution rests on the negative's number, the identification of the sitter is best read as a likely rather than a fully confirmed record.

Created / published[between 1896 and 1899]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Attribution based on negative D4-32235. 666" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032246. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBrooklyn (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Military officers--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan791 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65879

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