Tag: Pre-Dreadnought
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#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…
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#361 – Library of Congress Images – Launch of Battleship Georgia at Bath, Maine.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994015360/PP/ I recently discovered the Library of Congress online photo archive, an amazing archive of photographs depicting many aspects of American life up to the 1950’s. Online are thousands of scanned photographs, many of high quality glass negatives. The resolution on these will blow you away, and the high resolution scans are available to…
Mechanical Landscapes 