Main mast to foremast

Photograph

Battleship Texas Foundation

front of 2025.1008.60

Name/Title

Main mast to foremast

Entry/Object ID

2025.1008.60

Description

Texas foremast taken from her main mast. Men walk about on deck. Ferry in background. Uncovered canvas bridge, spotlights on the mast, and no torpedo defense places this photograph as before October 1917.

Context

The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Battleship Texas and other American coal-fired dreadnoughts began making preparations to join with the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea and began their departure in September 1917.

Collection

Donation (Ryan Flynn), Historical Collections

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1917

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