Mint card

front of 2025.1008.3

front of 2025.1008.3

Name/Title

Mint card

Entry/Object ID

2025.1008.3

Description

Card that came within a package of mints. Front has grainy image of Texas sailing tot he left with famous photograph of her with cage masts. Back has information about USS Texas and the caption at the bottom "TRY McNIVEN'S 6 a 1d SQUARE MINTS"

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.

Collection

Donation (Ryan Flynn), 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