On MAINE, H.M. Noyes, M.M. Chapman, E.J. Duggan, F. B. Read, J.S. Morgan, E.S. Farr, L.J. Englis

Photograph shows civilians on a training cruise on the U.S.S. Maine where they learned to be sailors as part of the Preparedness Movement before the entry of the United States into World War I. The ship left New York harbor in August, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)