U.S.S. Machias – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Machias, [between 1893 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e8/e8fb30795cd6-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. Machias comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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U.S.S. Machias
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The *Machias* was a steel gunboat of the U.S. Navy's post-1880s rebuilding, a smaller warship than the battleships the gallery's subject heading suggests. This 8 x 10 inch glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American places and people in the decades around 1900. Its record dates the image to between 1893 and 1901, and the company's catalog entry from 1901 supports that range. The plate shows the ship as the Navy's new steel fleet was taking shape, when a gunboat like this one served as a patrol and coastal-defense vessel.
| Created / published | [between 1893 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Hart" and "399" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020514. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Machias (Gunboat) Gunboats--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63760 |
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