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Photo # NH 103207-A-KN:  Artwork depicting USS Leviathan arriving at New York after World War I

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USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919 --
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This page features all the views we have of artworks depicting USS Leviathan.

For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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    Photo #: NH 103207-A-KN (color)

    USS Leviathan (ID # 1326)

    Halftone reproduction of an artwork showing the ship's arrival in New York Harbor after a voyage bringing service personnel home from France after World War I.
    This image was reproduced on the cover of a "Souvenir Folder", published in 1919 by the National Specialties Company of New York City, which features ten halftone reproductions of photographs of and on board the ship. The artwork is credited to the New York "Tribune" newspaper.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51398-KN (color)

    USS Leviathan (ID # 1326)

    Watercolor depicting the ship on her maiden Navy voyage from Hoboken, New Jersey, to Liverpool, England, with troops on board, Christmas Eve, 24 December 1917.

    Courtesy of CWO2 John A. Steel, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 86318-KN (color)

    USS Leviathan (ID # 1326)

    Painting by Lela Jordan, depicting the ship in a World War I convoy, 1918.

    Donation of Fred Jordan, 1965.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 1924

    "When the Leviathan went out" -- "Seagate 1918"


    Etching by Bernhardt Wall, 1918, depicting two children building a sand castle, as USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) steams past in the background.

    Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     


    In the following artworks, USS Leviathan is seen in the background:

    Photo #: NH 42690-KN

    "A Fast Convoy"


    Oil painting by Burnell Poole, depicting USS Allen (Destroyer # 66) escorting USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) in the War Zone, 1918.
    The original painting measures 60" x 33".

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 420 pixels

    Note:
    See Photo # NH 42690-KN (extended caption) for the artist's comments on this painting.

     
    Photo #: NH 1050

    USS Stevens
    (Destroyer # 86)

    Painting by Burnell Poole, 1924, depicting Stevens escorting USS Leviathan (ID # 1326) in the Atlantic, 1918.
    Another destroyer is in the right distance.
    This photograph was taken circa the 1920s or 1930s.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42691

    USS Kimberly
    (Destroyer # 80)

    Painting by Burnell Poole, 1926, depicting Kimberly escorting USS Leviathan (in left distance) in the Atlantic war zone, 1918. USS Davis (Destroyer # 65) is in the right distance.
    Photographed circa the 1930s.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 455 pixels

    Note:
    By the early 1970s this painting's condition had greatly deteriorated. See Photo # NH 42691-A-KN for its appearance at that time.

     

    For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Leviathan (ID # 1326), 1917-1919.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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