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[U.S. battleship Kearsarge] – Historic Reproduction

[U.S. battleship Kearsarge], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[U.S. battleship Kearsarge], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Battleships 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [U.S. battleship Kearsarge]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Visible on the building at left, the "Bush Terminal" lettering places this view of the battleship Kearsarge at the busy Brooklyn waterfront complex of that name, rather than at sea or in a naval yard. The ship was named for the Union sloop-of-war that sank the Confederate raider CSS *Alabama* off Cherbourg, France, in 1864. Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that photographed American landmarks and scenes in the early twentieth century, made this glass-plate negative between 1900 and 1915, when battleships were a central symbol of American naval power.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Bush Terminal" on building at left. "G 383" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 031689. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsKearsarge (Battleship) Battleships--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 713 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76903

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