This album page from a sailor's personal scrapbook documents service aboard USS Columbia, one of the U.S. Navy's fast protected cruisers of the 1890s, celebrated for her four funnels and record Atlantic crossing speeds. The photographs show the ship's commissioned officers assembled on deck, the cruiser resting in dry dock at New Orleans for maintenance, and a broadside view underway. Personal albums like this offer an intimate look at naval life during the era of American naval expansion at the turn of the twentieth century. Project: 218593