Navy and Battleship Postcards and Photographs

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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)

PDF

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

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Receiving Ship, Philadelphia, Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington

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