French Sailors

Name/Title

French Sailors

Entry/Object ID

p-26767

Description

French Sailors on Sunday, ca. 1900; Ship name = 'Devastation'; Marseilles, France The Devastation, was a devastation-class ironclad battleship of the French Navy. She was launched in 1879 and sank off Lorient, France in 1922. Sailor in foreground is reading Le Petit Marseillais newspaper, which was a regional newspaper published in Marseille between 1868 and 1944. "Le Demanche a Bord" Short for Bordeaux, meaning a sunday in Bordeaux.

Collection

Nancy Dubois Photograph Collection

Made/Created

Artist

N.D. Photo

Date made

circa 1900

Place

City

Marseilles, France

Country

France

Region

Western Europe

Continent

Europe

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