U.S.S. Nahant, a chief petty officer – Historic Print
![U.S.S. Nahant, a chief petty officer, [1898?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/eb/eb396ccdb4ba-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S.S. Nahant, a chief petty officer. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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U.S.S. Nahant, a chief petty officer
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Few ships on this board were built for the kind of service this one saw. The U.S.S. *Nahant* was a turret monitor, a low-freeboard design that carried its heavy guns in a rotating armored turret, and it was launched during the Civil War. By the late 1890s, when this portrait was likely made, monitors like her were largely obsolete, yet they remained in service for harbor defense. The record does not name the sailor, but the photograph shows a chief petty officer, a senior enlisted rank that kept the crew running day to day. The glass negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose large-format work documented American places and people in the decades around 1900.
| Created / published | [1898?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution to Hart based on negative D4-20049. X 73" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020050. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Nahant (Ship) United States.--Navy. Turret ships--American. Military officers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63350 |
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