Launch of PROTEUS, Newport News – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Launch of PROTEUS, Newport News, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Launch of PROTEUS, Newport News
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Launches at the Newport News shipyard in Virginia drew crowds of workers, officials and guests, and this glass negative records the christening of a vessel named PROTEUS. The record gives no date, but the name suggests the Navy's submarine tender built at the yard, though the record does not confirm which ship it shows. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its glass negative format reflects that era's photography, when pictures were captured on fragile plates before film became standard.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,778 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12501 |
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