USS North Dakota

front of 2025.1001.38

front of 2025.1001.38

Name/Title

USS North Dakota

Entry/Object ID

2025.1001.38

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, “Ex - U.S.S. North Dakota, Norfolk Navy Yard.” Features battleship with I completed cage masts, and no rifles in her turrets. Moored with her starboard to the pier, portside facing camera.

Context

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