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NH 93704 USS Brooklyn (CA-3)

Photo #: NH 93704 USS Brooklyn (CA-3)
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Title: USS Brooklyn (CA-3)
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Description: Photo #: NH 93704 USS Brooklyn (CA-3) Sailors and Marines on the cruiser's forecastle, with mascot goat, 1898. Note details of pilothouse and bridge, improvised gunport shields on her forward 8 gun turret, and very odd flathat worn by one sailor. The original photograph was published on a stereograph card, copyright by C.L. Wasson, 1899. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(Ret), 1982. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 93704
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