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C.B. Caldwell – Historic Print

C.B. Caldwell, [between 1915 and 1930] — historic photograph
C.B. Caldwell, [between 1915 and 1930]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A window into the past: C.B. Caldwell, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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C.B. Caldwell

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Among the many portraits in the Detroit Publishing Company collection, this one stands out as a formal study of a naval officer identified only as C.B. Caldwell, captured on a 7 by 5 inch glass dry plate negative. The record dates it to sometime between 1915 and 1930, a period when the United States Navy was expanding its fleet and its officer corps after the First World War. The photographer's company traveled widely in those years, producing views for commercial sale, so portraits like this one give a rare, personal glimpse of individual service members. The negative came to the Library of Congress as a gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / published[between 1915 and 1930]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 7 x 5 in.
GenrePortraits.Dry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesX 21727" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUnited States.--Navy. Military officers--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan692 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77385

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