The Fairway hotel card

Archive

-

Battleship Texas Foundation

front of 2025.1019.20.1

front of 2025.1019.20.1

Name/Title

The Fairway hotel card

Entry/Object ID

2025.1019.20.1

Scope and Content

Card sent to Miss Elizabeth Thackara from USS Texas.

Context

Battleship Texas had her own post office. All mail passed through a censor before leaving the ship. Once the package is checked, it was stamped with a “U.S.S. TEXAS” stamp. If in a port, mail could carry the markers of the post office on shore.

Collection

Donation (Kyle Brillantes), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Card, Business

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Card, Identification

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Personal Identification

Nomenclature Class

Personal Symbols

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects