Photo #: NH 45345
USS Mercury (ID # 3012)
Scene in troop spaces in a hold below the waterline, showing
a card game in progress, with banjo accompaniment, circa 1918-1919.
Note books at left, placed on board by the Red Cross and the
American Library Association. Sign with the books indicates that
the photo was taken as Mercury was transporting troops
back to the U.S. from Europe after the World War I Armistice.
Courtesy of E.E. Thompson.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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