This page from a sailor's personal photo album preserves three candid portraits of shipmates posed beside deck guns aboard the cruiser USS Columbia, each captioned in the sailor's own hand: 'The Cook Behind the Gun,' 'Marines at the 6in. Gun,' and 'A Happy Bunch.' Such informal snapshots, taken in the early decades of the twentieth century, capture the camaraderie and daily routine of naval gun crews long before the World Wars that would soon reshape naval warfare. Project: 218593