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U.S.S. Maine sailors' mess – Historic Print

U.S.S. Maine sailors' mess, 1896 — historic photograph
U.S.S. Maine sailors' mess, 1896. 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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A window into the past: U.S.S. Maine sailors' mess, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Taken aboard the battleship U.S.S. *Maine* in 1896, this view shows the sailors' mess, where the ship's enlisted men ate between their duties. The *Maine* had been commissioned only about a year earlier, and in February 1898 an explosion destroyed it in Havana harbor, an event that helped push the United States into the Spanish-American War. The Detroit Publishing Company made the image on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, and its records attribute it to a photographer named Hart based on similar negatives, not a signature. Pictures of everyday life aboard the ship from before its loss are especially valued today.

Created / published1896
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Hart based on negatives with similar numbers. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020548. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsMaine (Battleship) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Eating & drinking. Mess halls. Seamen--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63793

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