Battleship Line

Photograph

Battleship Texas Foundation

front of 2024.1026.3

Name/Title

Battleship Line

Entry/Object ID

2024.1026.3

Description

Nine battleships taken from tenth in back. Photo possibly taken from Texas, or could simply be the fleet she was in. Photo removed from album. Black backing from album pages.

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. Joseph Nemanic and John Dergantz collected photos throughout their time as Marines onboard Texas in the early 1920s.

Collection

Collection (Joseph Nemanic & John Dergantz), Historical Collections

Made/Created

Date made

1922 - 1924

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