Name/Title
Album pg#2Entry/Object ID
2024.1029.2Description
From a set of donated photo album pages an individual photos from 1917 and 1918. All sourced from initial book.
Six photos on the front side, two missing on the back. Front is of shots of the ocean off main deck. Top of page captioned
"Scene taken from the U.S.S. Texas on the Atlantic Ocean 1917-18."
Back has captions
"Earl Winegan - Oh! Girls-look at me now." (photograph missing)
Jes. A. Gorman - Star gazing" (photograph missing)Context
Battleship Texas arrived in Scapa Flow on February 11, 1918, where she joined the British Grand Fleet. She patrolled the North Sea throughout 1918, escorted the German High Seas Fleet to surrender on November 21, and departed the Grand Fleet on December 1, 1918.Collection
Historical Collections, Donation (Laurie Jordan)Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
