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U.S.S. New Orleans – Historic Reproduction

U.S.S. New Orleans, [1898?] — historic photograph
U.S.S. New Orleans, [1898?]. Historic photograph from the New Orleans 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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Few ships of the late 1890s carried the name New Orleans, so this view stands apart from the gallery's other warship images by its subject. The cruiser belonged to the American steel navy that was modernizing in the years before the Spanish-American War, when the United States was building and buying ships to project power beyond its coasts. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sold views of landscapes, cities and ships, issued this glass-plate negative, though the record gives only an approximate date of about 1898. Its catalog number and handwritten notes point to a working print series rather than a single commission, so the image is best read as a record of how the navy appeared to the public at the time.

Created / published[1898?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Hart based on negative D4-20072. X 52; "3" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020074. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsNew Orleans (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63381

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