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Photo # NH 41695:  Photographers at work during the Great White Fleet's return to Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1900s

World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909
-- Homecoming, 22 February 1909 (Part III)


This page features still more views concerning the "Great White Fleet"'s return to Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 22 February 1909.

For additional images related to this subject, see:

  • -- Homecoming, February 1909; and
  • -- Homecoming, 22 February 1909 (Part III).

    For further pictorial coverage of the "Great White Fleet":

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


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

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 41683

    Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet"
    ,
    Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909

    A crowd of local tugs and excursion steamers welcomes the "Great White Fleet" home at the end of its World cruise.
    Photographed from on board USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18), the Fleet's flagship. Note the officer in Special Full Dress uniform on the embarkation ladder, at right.
    The excursion steamer in the right center background is the General Lee.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41696

    Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet"
    ,
    Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909

    A crowd of local tugs and excursion steamers welcomes the "Great White Fleet" home at the end of its World cruise.
    Photographed from on board USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18), the Fleet's flagship.
    The stern of excursion steamer General Lee is visible at left. Tug Alice is in the right center, just beyond one of Connecticut's whaleboats.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41687

    Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet"
    ,
    Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909

    A crowd of local tugs and excursion steamers welcomes the "Great White Fleet" home at the end of its World cruise.
    The excursion steamer at right is the General Lee.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41695

    Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet"
    ,
    Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909

    Photographers at work on board a welcoming vessel, recording the fleet's arrival in Hampton Roads.
    Note the umbrella protecting cameras from the rain.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 53KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41693

    Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet"
    ,
    Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909

    Crowd waits in the rain, on a pier at Old Point Comfort, as the fleet arrived in Hampton Roads.
    The Hotel Chamberlin is in the background.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41692

    Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet"
    ,
    Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909

    Crowd waits in the rain, on a pier near the Hotel Chamberlin at Old Point Comfort, as the fleet arrived in Hampton Roads.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41694

    Homecoming of the "Great White Fleet"
    ,
    Hampton Roads, Virginia, 22 February 1909

    Crowd waits in the rain, on a pier at Old Point Comfort, as the fleet arrived in Hampton Roads.
    The Hotel Chamberlin is in the background.
    Note the umbrellas carried by many of these people.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     


    For additional images related to this subject, see:

  • -- Homecoming, February 1909; and
  • -- Homecoming, 22 February 1909 (Part II).

    For further pictorial coverage of the "Great White Fleet":

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


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


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