U.S.S. Columbia – Vintage Wall Art
![U.S.S. Columbia, [between 1894 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f5/f5cbe26fc33a-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. Columbia. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Grant's Tomb rises in the background of this view, which places the cruiser U.S.S. *Columbia* on the Hudson River in New York. *Columbia* was a protected cruiser commissioned in 1894, one of the fast, steel-hulled warships the Navy built in the 1890s to modernize its fleet. The glass-plate negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its commercial views of American places. It dates from roughly the turn of the century, when Grant's Tomb was still a fairly new landmark, completed in 1897.
| Created / published | [between 1894 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution to Hart based on negative D4-20321; date based on Detroit Catalogue J (1901). Grant's Tomb in background. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020326. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Columbia (Cruiser) Cruisers (Warships)--American.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63611 |
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