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1898 The New York Navy Yard (Brooklyn) Illustrated Spanish American War Article

$ 10.13

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Featured Refinements: Spanish American War
  • Time Period Manufactured: Spanish-Amer War (1898-1902)
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Theme: Militaria
  • Item must be returned within: 60 Days
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
  • Condition: VERY GOOD with foxing. This photo feature article was removed by your seller from a bound volume of Munsey's Magazine and has small staple holes along the left bound edge. There are also small nicks in the bound edge from the binding string. There is glue and paper residue and string remnants along the bound edge from the binding material. The pages may have small edge tears and small folds typical of magazine pages of this vintage.
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Always Originals - Never Reproductions
    Original Spanish American War - 16 page (counted fronts and backs) magazine photo feature article:
    April 1898 - The New York Navy Yard (the author is uncredited at both the article and at the bound volume's table of contents)
    The New York Navy Yard is more modernly known as The Brooklyn Navy Yard.
    From the April 1898 issue of Munsey's Magazine.  Pages measure 6.5" x 9.25".
    Illustrations in the article are as follows (all illustrations in the article are shown in the photos above):
    The captured guns and the captain's office
    Wash day aboard The Main on her last visit to the New York Navy Yard
    Men of war at the New York Navy Yard (The New York, The Brooklyn, The Newport, The Iowa)
    The battleship Texas
    The commandant's residence
    The torpedo boat Dupont going into dry dock No. 1
    Figure of Victory presented to the Massachusetts by the state of Massachusetts
    The battleship Iowa - the first ship in dry dock No. 3
    The armored cruiser New York
    Ten inch guns on the Monitor Amphitrite
    Deck of the battleship Indiana
    Drill of sailors from the battleship Massachusetts
    The Alliance - an old wooden man of war now used as an apprentice ship
    Dry dock No. 3 - the two million dollar dock that proved defective
    The gunboat Newport drying her sails
    The monitor Puritan with deck cleared for action
    The armored cruiser Brooklyn
    The deck of the Alliance
    Read Admiral Miller visiting The Brooklyn
    The Maine in dry dock before her fatal cruise to Havana
    Shipped by USPS First Class Mail in a new poly bag inside a new mailing tube.  Sorry, no international shipping.
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