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Photo # NH 102776-KN:  USS Bennington Monument, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetary, San Diego, California.  Postal card published circa the 1940s or 1950s

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1900s -- 1905

USS Bennington Monument, San Diego, California --
Part II


This page features additional views of the USS Bennington Monument at San Diego, California.

For other pictures of this monument, see:

  • USS Bennington Monument, San Diego, California.


    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 102770

    Bennington Monument
    , San Diego, California

    Photograph taken circa the 1920s or 1930s.
    This monument was erected as a memorial to the men lost in the 21 July 1905 boiler explosion on board USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4) at San Diego.

    Donation of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 53KB; 435 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102771

    Bennington Monument
    , San Diego, California

    Photograph taken circa the 1920s or 1930s.
    This monument was erected as a memorial to the men lost in the 21 July 1905 boiler explosion on board USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4) at San Diego.

    Donation of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 52KB; 430 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 49905

    USS William Jones
    (DD-308)

    Steaming out of San Diego harbor, California, during the 1920s.
    Note the USS Bennington monument atop the hill in the right center background.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102776-KN (color)

    USS Bennington Monument, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetary, San Diego, California

    Color-tinted postal card on a fabric-embossed stock, published by Herz Post Cards, San Diego, circa the 1940s or 1950s.
    This monument was erected in memory of the Navy personnel who lost their lives in the boiler explosion on board USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4) at San Diego on 21 July 1905.

    Courtesy of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 100KB; 475 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102773

    Bennington Monument shaft
    ,
    Bennington National Cemetary, San Diego, California

    Photograph taken circa the 1940s or 1950s.
    This monument was erected as a memorial to the men lost in the 21 July 1905 boiler explosion on board USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4) at San Diego.

    Donation of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 460 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102775

    Bennington National Cemetary
    , San Diego, California

    Fine-screen reproduction of an aerial photograph taken circa 1948 and published on a postal card by Ben Davis White, San Diego.
    The shaft of the Bennington Monument is visible in the upper right. It was dedicated in January 1908 as a memorial to the men lost in the 21 July 1905 boiler explosion on board USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4) at San Diego.

    Donation of H.E. ("Ed") Coffer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     

    For other pictures of this monument, see:

  • USS Bennington Monument, San Diego, California.

    For more images related to USS Bennington and her boiler explosion, see:

    USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4), 1891-1910; and
  • Boiler Explosion on USS Bennington, 21 July 1905.


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


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