[U.S.S. San Francisco, ship's company] – Historic Print
![[U.S.S. San Francisco, ship's company], [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cd/cd3040ac73a7-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. San Francisco, ship's company] 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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[U.S.S. San Francisco, ship's company]
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The lead subject here is the crew of the protected cruiser USS *San Francisco*, posed together as a ship's company rather than a single officer or sailor. The cruiser was commissioned in 1890 and spent much of the following decade in Pacific waters, a period when the Navy was expanding and its new steel ships were a source of national pride. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 x 10 inch glass plate negative, sold views of American places and ships to a wide market, so this group portrait offers a record of the men who served aboard during the years just before the Spanish-American War.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title and date from Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020946. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | San Francisco (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Cruisers (Warships)--American. Seamen--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 777 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64142 |
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