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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 52452

USS Charleston (C-2)


Three-legged race on board Charleston during Thanksgiving Day celebrations at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1893.
Participants include British and German sailors. The onlookers appear to be of mixed nationalities, as well.

Courtesy of Captain Henry F. Picking, 24 December 1893.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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16 November 1998