Photo #: NH 99945
USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10)
Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of the ship
ready for launching, at the Cramp Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
on 3 December 1904. A portrait of her Sponsor, Miss Annie Keith
Frazier, is vignetted into the view.
The original print was provided by Mrs. (Annie) Keith Frazier
Somerville, founder of The Society of Sponsors of the United
States Navy, for printing as the frontispiece of a calendar produced
by the USS Memphis (originally named Tennessee)
"Survivors" organization in 1962 for the benefit of
needy members.
Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99990-KN (color)
Miss Annie Keith Frazier,
Daughter of the Governor of Tennessee and Sponsor of USS Tennessee
(Armored Cruiser # 10)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken when she graduated
from high school. It was published in the Philadelphia "Evening
Bulletin" on 3 December 1904, the day of USS Tennessee's
launching ceremonies.
The original newspaper clipping has been annotated with a typewritten
note by the subject.
Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99991-KN (color)
Miss Annie Keith Frazier,
Daughter of the Governor of Tennessee and Sponsor of USS Tennessee
(Armored Cruiser # 10)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken at USS Tennessee's
launching ceremonies, at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
on 3 December 1904. It was published in the Philadelphia "Press"
on or about that date.
The original newspaper clipping has been annotated with a typewritten
note by the subject.
Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 46213
USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10)
In port, probably while fitting out circa early 1906.
Note that her six-inch broadside guns are not installed, though
the ship appears to be otherwise complete.
Photograph may have been taken at the yard of Tennessee's
builder, William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99948
USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10)
Running trials at 22.16 knots, circa February 1906.
Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by N.L.
Stebbins, of Boston, Massachusetts.
Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by
N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912).
Donation of David Shadell, 1987.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99944
USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10)
Cramp Shipyard party on board the ship, during her builder's
trials, 14 February 1906.
Photographed by the Dawson-Rich Company, 1031 Market Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
These men are identified (in pencil on the original print) as,
left to right, lower row: Doble, Jay, Read, Ed Cramp,
and H.S. Grove;
left to right, upper row: Robinson, Field, Miller, Dodson,
Berry and Mull.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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