Navy and Battleship Postcards and Photographs

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Contributor

Muller, E.

Description

This color postcard features a large gray naval battleship with three funnels/stacks in the center and cage/lattice masts on each end of the ship. A United States flag is flying near the mast on the stern end of the ship. A flag shield with an eagle perched on top (the U. S. Navy emblem) is in the upper right corner. The title in the upper left reads "U. S. Battleship "Nebraska." The copyright information is in the lower left. The back of the postcard identifies the item as a postcard and provides publisher information as well as indication for address placement. A green one cent postage stamp is placed in the upper right and the card is postmarked Burlington, Iowa Trans Clk, September 23, 1915. The description in the upper left reads "27839--U. S. Battleship Nebraska. Displacement about 17,00 tons; speed, 19 knots; 25,500 H. P. Length, 441 ft; beam, 76 1-6 ft.; draught, 28 ft. Crew of 910 men. Carries four 12 in. guns, eight 8 in guns and 28 smaller guns, with four 21 in. torpedo tubes. Armor belt, 11 ins. amidships; 12--8 ins on turrets; 10--7 ins. on barbettes. Completed, May 1907. Cost, $6,500,000. The card is inscribed and is addressed to Miss Minnie Kinsey in Bloomfield, Iowa.

Transcription

Why don't you write. I have been looking for a letter everyday and haven't got any yet. Are you sick or what is the matter. We are all right. Maybe some of you are coming down. I wish you would. We haven't heard from Andy's folks yet either. Write some if you haven't already. Andy and Hattie [sic]

Publication Date

9-23-1915

Publisher

Valentine Souvenir Co.

Time Period

1910-1919

Subjects

Postcards; United States. Navy--Ships

Geographic Location

Burlington, IA

Object Type

image

Format (original)

Postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MSS_837_Postcard_U.S.-Battleship-Nebraska-Seal_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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