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CRUISER "WEST VIRGINIA." An armored cruiser, built at Newport News, Va. 502 feet long by 70 feet wide, and displaces 13,680 tons. Speed, 22 knots per hour. Horse-power, 23,000. Cost about $3,885,000. Armed with four 8-inch and fourteen 6-inch guns besides a strong secondary battery. Complement, 41 officers and 791 men.
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U.S. NAVY. Cruiser "West Virginia."
CRUISER "WEST VIRGINIA." An armored cruiser, built at Newport News, Va. 502 feet long by 70 feet wide, and displaces 13,680 tons. Speed, 22 knots per hour. Horse-power, 23,000. Cost about $3,885,000. Armed with four 8-inch and fourteen 6-inch guns besides a strong secondary battery. Complement, 41 officers and 791 men.
American
about 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 Number2015.9633
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPostcards
DescriptionFront: Photo only Copyright 1905 by Enrique Muller.
Back: divided. Mint.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No.2435, "U.S. Navy-Cruisers."
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
Back: divided. Mint.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No.2435, "U.S. Navy-Cruisers."
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)