Photo #: NH 99945
USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10)
Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of the ship
ready for launching, at the Cramp Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
on 3 December 1904. A portrait of her Sponsor, Miss Annie Keith
Frazier, is vignetted into the view.
The original print was provided by Mrs. (Annie) Keith Frazier
Somerville, founder of The Society of Sponsors of the United
States Navy, for printing as the frontispiece of a calendar produced
by the USS Memphis (originally named Tennessee)
"Survivors" organization in 1962 for the benefit of
needy members.
Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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