Depressed barrels

front of 2026.1020.6

front of 2026.1020.6

Name/Title

Depressed barrels

Entry/Object ID

2026.1020.6

Description

Captioned: "Bow of Texas - 14 Guns." Guns of turret 1 are angled down below zero degrees. back of the photograph is stamped April 16, 19xx, with the actual year illegible.

Context

Battleship Texas was commissioned in 1914, served in World War One throughout 1918, and participated in interwar fleet training throughout the early 1920s. Ephriam Dickson was the executive director of Battleship Texas Foundation from June 1995 to February 1999. In addition to his duties, he conducted extensive research on and heavily collected items for the crew of Battleship Texas. He later donated his collection back to BTF.

Collection

Donation (Ephriam D. Dickson), Historical Collections

Made/Created

Date made

Apr 16, 1914 - Apr 16, 1919

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