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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 93704

USS Brooklyn (CA-3)


Sailors and Marines on the cruiser's forecastle, with mascot goat, 1898. Note details of pilothouse and bridge, improvised gunport shields on her forward 8" gun turret, and very odd "flathat" worn by one sailor. The original photograph was published on a stereograph card, copyright by C.L. Wasson, 1899.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(Ret), 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 60,259 bytes; 590 x 640 pixels

A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 93704-A

Online Image of stereo pair: 48,224 bytes; 675 x 355 pixels

 

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17 July 1998