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[A Navy bugler, a Marine bugler and a Marine drummer on the U.S.S. Maine] – Historic Reproduction

[A Navy bugler, a Marine bugler and a Marine drummer on the U.S.S. Maine] — historic photograph
[A Navy bugler, a Marine bugler and a Marine drummer on the U.S.S. Maine]. 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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Three musicians of the ship's crew stand for this portrait: a Navy bugler, a Marine bugler, and a Marine drummer, all aboard the U.S.S. Maine. Bugle and drum calls on a warship set the rhythm of the day, signaling watches, meals, drills and ceremonies, so these men were part of the ship's daily routine. The Maine was commissioned in 1895 and sank in Havana harbor in February 1898, an explosion whose cause was long disputed and that helped push the United States into the Spanish-American War. The caption card gives no date, so the photograph's exact year is uncertain.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,174 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127727

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