Fleet from bow

front of 2025.1001.70

front of 2025.1001.70

Name/Title

Fleet from bow

Entry/Object ID

2025.1001.70

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, "Fleet Maneuvers Pacific Ocean." and a written caption on the photo, "New York [unknown] from bow of Texas" Features a line of battleships arcing to the right of the screen. Rifles of turret 2, turret 1, and bow of Texas in foreground.

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. USS New York (BB-34) was the sister ship of USS Texas, and the lead ship of the New York-class battleships. She was commissioned from May 15, 1914, to August 29, 1946. 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