U.S.S. Massachusetts, marines at mess – Vintage Wall Art
![U.S.S. Massachusetts, marines at mess, [between 1896 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b5/b51ba8aa9a1c-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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This rare historic photograph captures U.S.S. Massachusetts, marines at mess in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Marines sit down to a meal aboard the battleship U.S.S. Massachusetts, offering a glimpse of routine life on one of the Navy's early steel battleships. The Massachusetts was commissioned in 1896 and took part in operations off Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Marine detachments on warships ate together in shared messes, and this glass-plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, dated between 1896 and 1901, records that everyday side of shipboard life. The company's large catalog of American views makes it a useful document of how the Navy and its men were pictured 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 | Attribution based on negative D4-20590. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 530" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020604. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Massachusetts (Battleship : 1896-1920) United States.--Marine Corps. Battleships--American. Mess halls. Soldiers--American. Eating & drinking. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63845 |
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