LC-Lot 10944-7: Native Americans on board USS Recruit, 1917-1920
![LC-Lot 10944-7: Native Americans on board USS Recruit, 1917-1920. Recruit was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the U.S. navy in Manhattan, New York City. Used as a recruiting tool and training ship during World War I, it was dismantled in 1920. Note, another USS Recruit (TDE-1, later TFFG-1) was also in service as a training tool, serving at Naval Training Center, San Diego (Point Loma), California, at various times from 1949 to 1997. Photographed by Bain News Service, New York, between 1917-20. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. LC-Lot 10944-7: Native Americans on board USS Recruit, 1917-1920. Recruit was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the U.S. navy in Manhattan, New York City. Used as a recruiting tool and training ship during World War I, it was dismantled in 1920. Note, another USS Recruit (TDE-1, later TFFG-1) was also in service as a training tool, serving at Naval Training Center, San Diego (Point Loma), California, at various times from 1949 to 1997. Photographed by Bain News Service, New York, between 1917-20. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.](/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/diversity/native-americans/lc-lot-10944-7/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1600776215492.jpg)
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- People--Native Americans
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- Photograph
Wars & Conflicts
Navy Communities
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- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
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