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Photo # NH 83188:  Advertisment for a musical comedy presented by USS Brooklyn's crew for the benefit of families of men lost when USS Memphis was wrecked

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1910s -- 1916

Loss of USS Memphis, 29 August 1916 --
Miscellaneous Images


This page features all the miscellaneous images we have related to the wreck of USS Memphis.

For other views related to the loss of USS Memphis, see:

  • Loss of USS Memphis, 29 August 1916.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

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    Photo #: NH 83188

    USS Brooklyn
    (Armored Cruiser # 3)

    Handbill advertisement for the musical comedy "Seventh Wife", presented by the ship's crew at the Lyceum Theatre, Shanghai, China, on 10-11 November 1916. The show was performed to benefit the families of men lost when USS Memphis was wrecked at at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 29 August 1916.

    Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99946

    USS Memphis
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Air port salvaged from the ship's wreck after she was driven ashore by a tidal wave at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 29 August 1916.
    By letter of 17 October 1917 Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels offered this object to the ship's Sponsor, Mrs. R.N. (Annie Keith Frazier) Somerville, founder of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy, as a possible momento. See Photo # NH 99947 for a photograph of that letter.

    Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99947

    USS Memphis
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Letter of 17 October 1917 from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, offering an air port from the ship to the her Sponsor, Mrs. R.N. (Annie Keith Frazier) Somerville, founder of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy, as a possible momento. See Photo # NH 99946 for a photograph of the air port offered in this letter.

    Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 128KB; 570 x 765 pixels

     

    For other views related to the loss of USS Memphis, see:

  • Loss of USS Memphis, 29 August 1916.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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