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CRUISER "BALTIMORE". Built in Philadelphia. 328 feet long and 48 feet broad, with a displacement of about 5,500 tons. Speed nearly 21 knots per hour. Horse-power, 10,064. Cost, about $1,325,000. Armament consists primarily of twelve 6-inch guns and six 14-pounder rapid firers, together with numerous automatic guns. Complement, 30 officers and 350 men.
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U.S. NAVY. Cruiser "Baltimore".
CRUISER "BALTIMORE". Built in Philadelphia. 328 feet long and 48 feet broad, with a displacement of about 5,500 tons. Speed nearly 21 knots per hour. Horse-power, 10,064. Cost, about $1,325,000. Armament consists primarily of twelve 6-inch guns and six 14-pounder rapid firers, together with numerous automatic guns. Complement, 30 officers and 350 men.
American
1908–1909
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 Number2015.9602
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPostcards
DescriptionFront: Copyright by Waldon Fawcett.
Back: undivided. Mint.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No.2323 "U.S. Navy-Cruisers."
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
Back: undivided. Mint.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No.2323 "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)