General view of the shipyard, Newport News, Va. – Vintage Wall Art
(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: General view of the shipyard, Newport News, Va., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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General view of the shipyard, Newport News, Va.
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Few American industrial sites of the early 1900s were as large as the yard at Newport News, on the James River in Virginia, and this broad view shows its waterfront as a working complex of slips, cranes, and structures. The yard was founded in 1886 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which was controlled by Collis P. Huntington, and by about 1905 it had grown into one of the country's major builders of large steel ships. The glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document cities, railroads, and industry for commercial sale. Its survival in the Library of Congress collection makes it a useful record of the yard during the years it was expanding.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018368. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Boat & ship industry. Industrial facilities. Marine terminals.United States--Virginia--Newport News. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-61890 |
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