U.S.S. Shenandoah & U.S.S. Patoka – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Shenandoah & U.S.S. Patoka, [1924] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b9a3057bea57-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S.S. Shenandoah & U.S.S. Patoka. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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U.S.S. Shenandoah & U.S.S. Patoka
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This glass negative pairs two vessels named in its title, the U.S.S. Shenandoah and the U.S.S. Patoka, though the title is unverified and the Shenandoah was a Navy rigid airship rather than a battleship. The Shenandoah, commissioned in 1923, was the first rigid airship built in the United States, and it was used for scouting and experiments until it broke apart in a storm over Ohio in 1925. The National Photo Company made many views of the period, and the streaks and blemishes on the glass come from deterioration of its original coating rather than from the scene itself.
| Created / published | [1924] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp note: Batch three. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,310 × 5,264 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-241340 |
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