U.S.S. Vesuvius, projectile carriers – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Vesuvius, projectile carriers, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c2/c206ff106856-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. Vesuvius, projectile carriers in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Vesuvius, projectile carriers
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This view shows the projectile carriers aboard the U.S.S. Vesuvius, a cruiser unlike most warships of its day. Rather than carrying conventional cannon, she was built to fire dynamite shells from pneumatic guns, a design associated with Army officer Edmund Zalinski. The carriers held and moved these heavy, specially made projectiles to the launching tubes, so the photograph documents the working machinery of the ship's unusual armament. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced this glass negative, issued many views of American naval vessels, and its work from this period gives a detailed record of late nineteenth-century shipboard equipment.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). X 5" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020115. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Vesuvius (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American. Interiors. Ship equipment & rigging. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 793 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63423 |
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