U.S.S. Nashville – Vintage Wall Art
![U.S.S. Nashville, [between 1897 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fc/fc528d715183-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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This historic photograph of U.S.S. Nashville brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The gunboat *Nashville* gained a place in early Spanish-American War history when her crew fired the first American shots of that conflict off Cárdenas, Cuba, in April 1898. This glass negative, made by the Detroit Publishing Company sometime between 1897 and 1901, shows the ship in the years after her commissioning, when the steel gunboat was a newer addition to the Navy's fleet. The company's large-format plates were valued for their fine detail, and this one preserves the vessel's profile as a record of American naval design at the turn of the century.
| Created / published | [between 1897 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on negative D4-20634. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 829" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020633. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Nashville (Gunboat) Gunboats--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 777 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-63872 |
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