Launch of TEXAS - Secy Meyer and Claudia Lyon – Historic Print
(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 TEXAS - Secy Meyer and Claudia Lyon, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Launch of TEXAS - Secy Meyer and Claudia Lyon
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Navy Secretary George von Lengerke Meyer and a woman named Claudia Lyon are the people named in this picture's title, which places them at the launch of the battleship Texas. The Texas was built at the Newport News shipyard in Virginia and launched in 1912, part of the early generation of big-gunned battleships that reshaped navy strength before World War I. Launches like this drew officials, sponsors and crowds to the yards. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs, documented many such events. The record gives no date, and its title comes from caption data the agency supplied that has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,298 × 5,866 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11740 |
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