The Snapshots in Time Collection

Album Page: Fort Monroe, the Beach at Hampton Roads, and Hospital Steward Westling

Album Page: Fort Monroe, the Beach at Hampton Roads, and Hospital Steward Westling

This album page documents a U.S. Navy sailor's visit to Hampton Roads, Virginia, including the historic entrance to Fort Monroe, a leisurely boat outing along the beach, and a formal portrait of Hospital Steward Westling in the ship's dispensary, surrounded by rows of labeled medicine bottles. Together these images capture both the sightseeing and the medical infrastructure of naval life in the early 1900s. Project: 218595