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Online Library of Selected Images
-- ART TOPICS -- PHOTOGRAPHERS
Alton Blackinton
Alton H. (or Alton M.) Blackinton (also spelled, incorrectly,
"Blackington"), of Boston, Massachusetts, took many
photographs of Navy subjects in that city, and elsewhere in New
England during the World War I era.
This page provides links to photographs taken by Alton Blackinton.
The following photographs were taken by Alton Blackinton:
- Photo # NH 45277:
USS Satilla
(SP-687) in the ice at Rockland, Maine, during the Winter
of 1917.
- Photo # NH 45287:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 45283:
USS Shur (SP-782)
at the Portland, Maine, Section Base, circa 1918.
- Photo # NH 41948:
Boating exercises at the Rockland, Maine, Section Base, 1918.
- Photo # NH 41949:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 42142:
USS Moosehead
(ID # 2047) and section patrol craft at Lockwood's Basin,
Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918.
- Photo # NH 42143:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 42144:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 42145:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 42146:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 42147:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 42148:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 42284:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 45268:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 45269:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 45728:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 45270:
USS Elsie III
(SP-708) and other section patrol craft at Lockwood's Basin,
Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918.
- Photo # NH 45271:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 45276:
Same subject.
- Photo # NH 45288:
USS Lynx II
(SP-730) at Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa
1918.
- Photo # NH 42546:
USS SP-582
at Wakefield, Massachusetts, circa 1918-1919.
- Photo # NH 41990:
USS SC-267
at Wakefield, Massachusetts, circa 1918-1919
- Photo # NH 41995:
"Y-Gun" depth charge thrower on USS SC-267, circa 1918-1919
- Photo # NH 45750:
USS Mount Vernon
(ID # 4508), at Boston, Mass., 1919
- Photo # NH 45751:
Same subject
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