DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 64681
USS Farragut (DD-300)
Dunking chair used by the Royal Barber to "shave" pollywogs
during a mid-Pacific Equator crossing ceremony, July 1928.
Note the Royal Barber's oversize razor in the lower right.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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