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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 106119-KN (color)

"Great White Fleet" World Cruise

Postcard published in Japan to commemorate the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's visit there in October 1908. This embossed card features a portrait of the Fleet's Commander-in-Chief, Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, USN, and the flags of the United States and Japan.
See Photo # NH 106119-A-KN for a view of the reverse of this card, which was mailed from Japan to Miss Tillie Cathcart of Jersey City Heights, New Jersey.

Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 21 September 2008