Hunters Point dry dock

front of 2025.1001.78

front of 2025.1001.78

Name/Title

Hunters Point dry dock

Entry/Object ID

2025.1001.78

Description

Entries 2025.1001.23 through 2025.1001.99 were taken out of the significantly deteriorated pages of at least one photo album belonging to Texas crew members and bought by BTF. The album photos date to the early to mid 1920s. Each photo had writing on the pages of the book, now discarded. The caption formerly on the page for this photo read, "U.S.S. Texas." with writing on the top of the photo, "Hunters Point dry dock San Francisco" Features Texas to the left of another ship undergoing repair. Smoke coming from Texas smokestack.

Context

Battleship Texas participated in various fleet maneuvers and exercises in the Atlantic Ocean (1919) and later Pacific Ocean from July 1919 through January 1924. Beginning in February 1923, maneuvers became known as Fleet Problems, which continued to 1939. Many crew members kept photo albums that each have hundreds of photos chronicling their service onboard.

Collection

eBay Purchase, Historical Collections

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