This handwritten album note provides valuable context for accompanying shipyard photographs: 'After the Launching, Flotsam still on the Channel, Vallejo in the distance... This was the Launching of the Prometheus about midyear or later in 1908... Gatehouse on Left. Picture was taken from firehouse upper window.' The annotation, initialed 'E.G. 61,' identifies the location as Mare Island Naval Shipyard near Vallejo, California, and offers a firsthand account of how and where the photographs were taken. Project: 218494