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NH 98219 Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby

Photo #: NH 98219 Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby
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Title: Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby
Description: With his wife and son, by the control car of USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), during the dirigible's christening ceremonies inside the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, 10 October 1923. Mrs. Denby was Shenandoah's sponsor. Note the sandbag weights used to keep the inflated airship on the ground. Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 98219
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