Brooklyn Naval Yard – Mechanical Landscapes

USS Iowa at Brooklyn Naval Yard

Originally posted on Planes, Boats, Trains:
Title: U.S.S. Iowa in dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard Date: 1901? Photographer: Detroit Publishing Company Source: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994013759/PP/

#362 – Library of Congress Images – USS Maryland in dry dock

I mentioned in the first post in this series about the quality of the glass plate negatives in the Library of Congress archive. I love looking at these images at 100%, it’s not so much pixel peeping as seeing what is in the image as they are so big. They are scans from 8×10 negatives…