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BATTLESHIP "TEXAS". Built at the U.S. Navy Yard at Norfolk, Va. Over 300 feet long and 64 feet broad, and displaces upward of 7,000 tons of water. Speed 18 knots per hour. Horse-power, 8,610. Cost, about $2,500,000. Armed with two 12-inch guns and six 6-inch weapons, as well as various rapid-firers. Complement, 30 officers and about 400 men.
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U.S. NAVY. Battleship "Texas".
BATTLESHIP "TEXAS". Built at the U.S. Navy Yard at Norfolk, Va. Over 300 feet long and 64 feet broad, and displaces upward of 7,000 tons of water. Speed 18 knots per hour. Horse-power, 8,610. Cost, about $2,500,000. Armed with two 12-inch guns and six 6-inch weapons, as well as various rapid-firers. Complement, 30 officers and about 400 men.
American
1906
Medium/Technique
Photo-chromolithograph on card stock.
Dimensions
Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession Number2015.9612
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPostcards
DescriptionFront: Copyright by Waldon Fawcett.
Back: undivided. Mint.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No.2324 "U.S. Navy-Battleships."
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
Back: undivided. Mint.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No.2324 "U.S. Navy-Battleships."
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)