Landing party, U.S.S. Columbia – Vintage Print
![Landing party, U.S.S. Columbia, [between 1893 and 1905] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f7/f7da3ab2b0be-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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A window into the past: Landing party, U.S.S. Columbia, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Landing party, U.S.S. Columbia
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A landing party from the cruiser U.S.S. Columbia is the subject of this 8 by 10 inch glass negative, made sometime between 1893 and 1905. The Columbia, commissioned in 1894, was one of the Navy's protected cruisers of that era, and landing parties of sailors and Marines were often sent ashore to protect American interests, keep order, or represent the ship on foreign visits. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many views of American and foreign scenes around the turn of the century, catalogued the negative. The men may be Marines, though that attribution rests only on the style of the numbering.
| Created / published | [between 1893 and 1905] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on style of numbering. Possibly U.S. Marine Corps. 409" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032271. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Columbia (Cruiser) Soldiers--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 800 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-65904 |
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