This handcrafted photomontage, titled 'The Band, U.S.S. Columbia, 1904,' commemorates the cruiser's shipboard musicians through individual portraits arranged around an image of a snare drum, each man identified only by his nickname. Such personal, affectionate keepsakes were common in sailors' scrapbooks, preserving the camaraderie of shipboard musical units in the pre-World War I Navy. Project: 218595