U.S.S. Miantonomoh, Capt. Montgomery Sicard and officers – Vintage Print
![U.S.S. Miantonomoh, Capt. Montgomery Sicard and officers, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ed/ed606d749790-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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures U.S.S. Miantonomoh, Capt. Montgomery Sicard and officers in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. Miantonomoh, Capt. Montgomery Sicard and officers
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The ship in this group portrait is the U.S.S. Miantonomoh, a turret vessel of the monitor type, and the photograph shows Captain Montgomery Sicard standing with his officers. Sicard, a career naval officer who died in 1900, commanded the ship during the years this photograph was likely taken. The Detroit Publishing Company made three close variant glass negatives of the scene, which is why the set is catalogued together. Such formal portraits of a ship's commander and staff were a common way for the Navy of the late 1800s to record a vessel's leadership.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Negatives are close variants. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). X 175" on A negative; "7140" on negative D4-20038. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 020037 and 020038. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Sicard, Montgomery,--1836-1900. Miantonomoh (Monitor) United States.--Navy. Turret ships--American. Military officers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63338 |
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