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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 103198-A

USS Leviathan
(ID # 1326)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph showing the ship tied to a mooring buoy in 1918, while she was painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
Note the ship nickname used in the original picture caption: "The Big Chief".
This image was published in 1919 by the National Specialties Company of New York City, as one of ten photographs in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning USS Leviathan.

Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 25 October 2005