Photo #: NH 106032
S.S. Minnesota (American Passenger-Cargo Ship, 1904)
In Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, in early 1918.
Note the ice in the foreground.
Minnesota is painted in Mackay low visibility camouflage.
She served as USS Troy (ID # 1614) in 1919.
The original print, originally belonging to the Publicity Department
of the International Mercantile Marine Company, bears a pencilled
inscription stating that it was later owned by the noted maritime
historian and artist Frank O. Brainard (1916-2007).
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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