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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102140

Postmaster General
(Harbor Passenger Steamer, 1898)

Photographed prior to her World War I Navy service.
This steamer was chartered by the Navy on 28 February 1918 to provide postal services. She was commandeered in June 1918, commissioned on 20 June as USS Postmaster General (ID # 2364) and returned to her owner on 6 May 1919.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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11 November 2002