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The favorite pastime on shipboard - a game of shuffleboard

The favorite pastime on shipboard - a game of shuffleboard

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 8107. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Ships Misc.; Sports Shuffleboard; Shelf.

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. As a U.S. Army transport plows through the Atlantic on its way to Liberia, Africa, the Negro crew of a 37mm anti-aircraft gun holds a shipboard practice session. The soldiers, members of a U.S. Army Engineer's unit, were especially interested in Liberia, a Negro Republic founded by their ancestors whose governmental system is patterned on that of the U.S.

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. As a U.S. Army transport plows th...

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I'll carry mine. As patriotic on leave as he is on shipboard, this sailor on furlough keeps America's wartime pledge to save tires and gasoline by carrying the family purchases. Note that the young man's wife carries only her own handbag: husbands please observe

I'll carry mine. As patriotic on leave as he is on shipboard, this sai...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Emigrants on shipboard - Drawing. Public domain image.

Emigrants on shipboard - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illus. in: Every Saturday, Boston, May 6, 1871. Reference copy may be in LOT 7010. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[On shipboard]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

[On shipboard]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title from handwritten notation on mat. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1936:0065). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombers to a platform on deck insures safe transit from an American port to the bombers' destination. Crews of highly specialized workers are required to load assembled planes on shipboard and to prevent their becoming dislodged in heavy seas. These precautions are unnecessary when planes are sent unassembled in crates; however, most planes going to the Near East are shipped ready for flight within one hour after docking, since in many ports competent unloading equipment is lacking or has been demolished by Axis raids

Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

If you happen to be commander of a Navy ship you will be happy to know about this new piece of mechanism. It is the result of the combined efforts of various branches of the Navy Dept. It is a theodolite (compass for measuring the horizon) that will be used on Navy ships. Mr. R.L. Currie of the aerological office Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy department is shown with this instrument which will be used to site pilot balloons sent from shipboard for the sake of gathering weather information

If you happen to be commander of a Navy ship you will be happy to know...

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