U.S.S. Mayflower – Antique Wall Art
![U.S.S. Mayflower, [between 1898 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d8/d83bc876da6d-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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A window into the past: U.S.S. Mayflower, 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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U.S.S. Mayflower
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Among the Detroit Publishing Company's views of government ships, this one shows the U.S.S. Mayflower, a steam yacht the Navy took into service around the time of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Built as a private yacht for pleasure cruising, she was pressed into government use and later served as a presidential yacht, carrying Theodore Roosevelt among others. The company's photographers worked on glass plates like this 8 by 10 inch negative to document American places and vessels, which were then published as views and postcards around the turn of the century. The picture is a useful record of how a luxury hull looked in naval service.
| Created / published | [between 1898 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Hart" and "470" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020617. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Mayflower (Yacht) Government vessels--American. Steam yachts. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 793 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63858 |
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