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U.S.S. Buffalo, ship's company – Vintage Print

U.S.S. Buffalo, ship's company, [between 1898 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Buffalo, ship's company, [between 1898 and 1901]. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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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This rare historic photograph captures U.S.S. Buffalo, ship's company in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Unlike the other views on this board, this picture shows the men who served aboard the U.S.S. Buffalo rather than the city of the same name. The crew is posed in a group portrait on an 8 by 10 inch glass plate negative, a format common to commercial photographers of the late 1890s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made views of American places and people for sale to travelers and publishers, is credited with the image. The ship was part of the Navy's expansion in the years around the Spanish-American War, when the service was building up its fleet and its enlisted ranks. Group portraits like this one preserve the faces and uniforms of ordinary sailors from that period.

Created / published[between 1898 and 1901]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution based on negative D4-20261. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Negatives are close variants. Dup" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020267. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBuffalo (Cruiser) United States.--Navy. Seamen--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 767 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63562

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