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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 106200

USS Connecticut
(Battleship # 18)

Boxing match on board the ship, during New Year's Day celebrations while en route to the Suez Canal with the "Great White Fleet", 1 January 1909.
The original image is printed on post card stock. A hand-written note faintly visible on its upper edge indicates that the boxers may have been named Koch and Harrington.

Donation of Mrs. Ruth Mayfield, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 6 November 2008