Posies

Photograph

Battleship Texas Foundation

front of 2024.1029.8

Name/Title

Posies

Entry/Object ID

2024.1029.8

Description

From a set of donated photo album pages an individual photos from 1917 and 1918. All sourced from initial book. Man stands in frame Back is simply captioned "Posies"

Context

The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Battleship Texas and other American coal-fired dreadnoughts began making preparations to join with the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea and began their departure in September 1917.

Collection

Donation (Laurie Jordan), Historical Collections

Made/Created

Date made

1917 - 1918

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects