U.S.S. Massachusetts, 6 inch gun and crew – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Massachusetts, 6 inch gun and crew, [between 1896 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b4/b4ff2d9facb4-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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U.S.S. Massachusetts, 6 inch gun and crew
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Sailors gather around a 6-inch gun aboard the U.S.S. Massachusetts, one of the Navy's early steel battleships, whose secondary battery of these quick-firing guns lined its sides. The picture is an 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for large-format views of American places and ships in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Its date is given as between 1896 and 1901, a period when the Navy was modernizing its fleet and the Massachusetts was among the ships showing what American steel warships could do. Viewers can study the crew's uniforms and the gun's mounting to see how the ship was armed at the turn of the century.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020584. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Massachusetts (Battleship : 1896-1920) United States.--Navy. Artillery (Weaponry) Battleships--American. Seamen--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63827 |
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