This page from a sailor's personal photograph album, kept aboard USS Columbia in the early twentieth century, documents shore liberty at Culebra, Puerto Rico. One image shows Navy crewmen posed before thatched-roof native huts; the other captures a serene view of Great Harbor, then a major anchorage for U.S. Atlantic Fleet gunnery practice and winter maneuvers. Such informal albums offer an intimate window into the everyday life of the pre-World War I Navy, far removed from the era's formal official photography. Project: 218595