U.S.S. Massachusetts, crew at mess – Historic Print
![U.S.S. Massachusetts, crew at mess, [between 1896 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f9/f916790f4998-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. Massachusetts, crew at mess. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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U.S.S. Massachusetts, crew at mess
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Crew members of the battleship *Massachusetts* gather for a meal in this 8 x 10 inch glass-plate negative, one of the large-format views the Detroit Publishing Company made of American life around 1900. Warship messes of that era were crowded spaces with long fixed tables and benches, so the picture offers a close look at everyday routine aboard a steel fleet vessel. The company's catalog from 1901 helps date the negative to the late 1890s or early 1900s, and its photochrom prints later made the firm's work widely known.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20590. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 544" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020603. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Massachusetts (Battleship : 1896-1920) United States.--Navy. Battleships--American. Seamen--American. Mess halls. Eating & drinking. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 784 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63844 |
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