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U.S.S. Hartford, maintop from foretop – Historic Print

U.S.S. Hartford, maintop from foretop, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Hartford, maintop from foretop, [between 1890 and 1901]. Historic photograph from the Hartford 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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Step back in time with U.S.S. Hartford, maintop from foretop, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Looking down from the maintop toward the foretop, this view shows the dense web of lines and the platforms sailors climbed to handle the sails on the U.S.S. Hartford. The sloop-of-war carried Admiral David Farragut's flag at the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, and by the 1890s it had been turned to training duty. Detroit Publishing Company, which issued the 8 by 10 inch glass negative in its large catalog of views, recorded many of the navy's older wooden ships in this period. The photograph is a useful record of the working rigging of a vessel from the Civil War era.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020410. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHartford (Ship) Government vessels--American. Ship equipment & rigging.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63659

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