Sailor boxer

front of 2024.1032.26

front of 2024.1032.26

Name/Title

Sailor boxer

Entry/Object ID

2024.1032.26

Description

From a donated collection of individual photographs and pages out of a 1930s Texas crewmember's photo album. Items donated by the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. LAMM accession numbers (featured on back) correspond to BTF accession numbers FA2010.3698.01 is cataloged as 2024.1032.1 and on through the collection. Sailor wearing three boxing belts, the top two are fleet championships, and the bottom is the All-Navy championships with medals hanging from it. Man has tattoo on right shoulder.

Context

Battleship Texas was flagship of the United States Fleet from September 1, 1927, to September 15, 1931. Admirals Wiley, Pratt, and Chase served as Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet in that time. Clarence C. Clifton enlisted on August 2, 1926, and joined the crew of Battleship Texas on October 12, 1926, as a S2c. He was promoted to S1c in the summer of 1927 and remained stationed on Texas through 1930. Many crew members kept photo albums that each have hundreds of photos chronicling their service onboard. The crew of Battleship Texas held sporting events on board, participated in those held on other ships, and at peacetime with civilians when in port

Collection

Collection (Clarence C. Clifton), 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