U.S.S. Monongahela – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Monongahela, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e8/e8b90223e39f-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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U.S.S. Monongahela comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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U.S.S. Monongahela
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The U.S.S. Monongahela, named for the river that joins the Allegheny at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio, appears here as a United States Navy cruiser in the years just before 1900. The view survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, made with a dry plate process that let photographers of the period work quickly and print in volume. It came from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sold large catalogues of American scenes, and the record dates it to that company's 1901 catalog. Cruisers of this era scouted for fleets and protected sea lanes, and pictures like this one show how the navy was modernizing its ships around 1900.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020628. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Monongahela (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 782 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63867 |
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