USS Texas “Navy Day” [Cover]

Object/Artifact

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The Lew Anvil Collection

Name/Title

USS Texas “Navy Day” [Cover]

Description

Possible Beazell cachet photograph of USS Texas, postmarked aboard on October 27, 1934. NAVY DAY / CANAL ZONE inserted between the killer bars. Ship’s seal embossed on cover. Signed on the bottom in green by E.O. Tauer, the cachet designer.

Context

Battleship Texas celebrated Navy Day underway in the Panama Canal Zone, the thirteenth of sixteen crossings.