U.S.S. KENTUCKY – Antique Print
![U.S.S. KENTUCKY, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ee/ee2caf15190d-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. KENTUCKY comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S.S. KENTUCKY
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The battleship Kentucky, a Kearsarge-class ship that entered service around 1900, was built during a period of rapid naval expansion as the United States extended its reach beyond its coasts. This view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for photographs of American places and subjects taken in the late 1890s through the 1910s. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year the picture was taken is unknown. Its value lies in showing how the Navy's large steel warships looked to the public in that era.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 020487. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ships--Kentucky; Detr. Shelf; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155435 |
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