Navy and Battleship Postcards and Photographs

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This color postcard features a dark naval ship with two cage/lattice masts in a dry dock with buildings and smoke stacks to the left of the dry dock. The title along the top of the card reads "U. S. S. "Mississippi" in Dry Dock, League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." The back of the postcard identifies the item as a Souvo Chrome Superior Quality postcard and provides indication for correspondence, address, and postage stamp placement.

Publication Date

1900

Subjects

Postcards; United States. Navy--Ships

Geographic Location

Philadelphia, PA

Object Type

image

Format (original)

Postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MSS_837_Postcard_U.S.S.-Mississippi-in-Dry-Dock-League_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.

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