The Snapshots in Time Collection
Close View: 'The Band' After Coaling Ship - USS Columbia, Dry Tortugas, c. 1905
Coaling a warship by hand left every man aboard - including the ship's musicians - covered head to toe in coal dust. This enlarged detail from a USS Columbia crew member's photograph album captures the ship's band shortly after such an evolution at the Dry Tortugas, Florida, around 1905. Project: 218595