This album page from the USS Columbia (C-12) photograph collection captures shipboard and liberty-port life during the cruiser's early twentieth-century deployments. Featured are a rare view of the early submarine USS Shark running on the surface, a candid portrait of a young sailor, a waterfront view of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, a group portrait of Columbia crewmen nicknamed 'Columbiaites,' and a beach photograph of shipmates ashore. Together these snapshots illustrate the camaraderie, travel, and technological transition of the 'Old Navy' era, roughly 1898-1910s. Project: 218597