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Photo #: NH 95456 (Complete Caption)

Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy

Attendees at the Society's organizational meeting, in Washington, D.C., February 1908. The photograph was given to the Society by Mrs. Annie Keith Frazier Somerville, one of its founders. Her mother had sent a photographer to Washington's Willard Hotel to take this view.
The fourteen sponsors present to organize the Society were (Those identified on the photograph are marked "**"):
Mrs. G.F. Toland;
** Mrs. John P. Pels (Miss R.W. Wright), Sponsor of USS Denver (C-14);
** Mrs. Earl Morgan (Miss Elizabeth Stephenson), Sponsor of USS Wisconsin (BB-9);
Miss Helen Duchler, Sponsor of USS Ohio (BB-12);
Mrs. George Sturdevant (Miss M.L. Drake), Sponsor of USS Iowa (BB-4);
** Miss Lorna Pinnock, Sponsor of USS Salem (CS-3);
Miss Harriet Rankin;
Miss Dorothy Sproul, Sponsor of USS Chester (CS-1);
Miss Ida May Shearer;
** Miss Mary Campbell, Sponsor of USS Birmingham (CS-2);
** Miss Keith Frazier, Sponsor of USS Tennessee (ACR-10);
** Mrs. John South (Miss Christine Bradley), Sponsor of USS Kentucky (BB-6);
** Miss Minnie Conrad, Sponsor of USS Montana (ACR-13).
The little girl is Miss Eleanor Gow.

Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 4 February 1999
Rescanned and reposted 19 January 2005