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STAR OF SHETLAND under full sail – Vintage Print

STAR OF SHETLAND under full sail, c1926 Oct. 22. — historic photograph
STAR OF SHETLAND under full sail, c1926 Oct. 22.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: STAR OF SHETLAND under full sail, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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STAR OF SHETLAND under full sail

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Star of Shetland appears here under full sail, and the record's J-series number points to a copyright deposit, a process that sent photographs to the U.S. Copyright Office and helped preserve many images like it. The date of about October 22, 1926 comes from an old caption card and has not been independently verified. By the mid-1920s, steamships had taken over most cargo routes, so a photograph of canvas filling overhead captures a working trade that was already in decline. Images like this one are useful to historians of maritime life and to anyone curious about how sailing ships looked at work.

Created / publishedc1926 Oct. 22.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ285698 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ships--Star of Shetland--1926; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147174

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