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U.S.S. Chicago, one of the crew – Antique Print

U.S.S. Chicago, one of the crew, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Chicago, one of the crew, [between 1890 and 1901]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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Step back in time with U.S.S. Chicago, one of the crew, a historic photograph rich in period 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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A sailor from the protected cruiser *Chicago* poses beside the ship's artillery, a reminder of how closely a turn-of-the-century crewman's working life was tied to his guns. *Chicago* was one of the steel cruisers the United States built in the 1880s to replace its aging wooden fleet, and she was commissioned in 1889. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its photographs of American places and people, made this view as a glass-plate negative. The company's catalog dates the image to around 1901, so the picture captures the ship and its men in the years just after the new navy took shape.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020303. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsChicago (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Artillery (Weaponry) Seamen--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63590

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