Navy and Battleship Postcards and Photographs
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Description
This color postcard features a long white ship with brown cabin features on the top deck in the water. Trees are behind the ship. The title along the bottom of the card reads "1195 Receiving Ship Philadelphia Puget Sound Naval Station Washington." The back of the postcard identifies the item as a postcard and provides publisher information, as well as, indication for correspondence and postage stamp placement. The card is inscribed, though, the entire inscription is illegible.
Transcription
[The inscription is entirely illegible.]
Publication Date
1900
Publisher
Lowman and Hanford Company
Subjects
Postcards; United States. Navy--Ships; United States. Navy--Ship yards; Puget Sound, WA
Object Type
image
Format (original)
Postcard
Format (digital)
Digital ID
MSS_837_Postcard_Receiving-Ship-Philadelphia-Paget-Sound-Naval-Station_001
Source
Mississippi State University Libraries, Manuscripts Division, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Naval Battleship Subcollection
Repository
Manuscripts
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)
Rights
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Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.
Recommended Citation
Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University