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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 106129

"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909


View on the River Nile, Egypt, during a sightseeing tour for U.S. Navy Sailors at the time of the Fleet's January 1909 Suez Canal transit.
Note the local sailing craft underway on the river and moored to its banks.

Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 25 September 2008