The Snapshots in Time Collection
Album Page: Target Range, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Musician and Marines - Baseball Party Ashore
This album page from the USS Columbia (C-12) collection documents shore activities during a Caribbean deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the early 1900s. The upper panorama shows the fleet's target range used for gunnery practice, while cut-out portraits of a ship's musician and two Marines illustrate the varied personnel aboard a protected cruiser of the 'Old Navy' era. The lower photograph captures a baseball game ashore, a popular recreational pastime for sailors between training exercises during the Spanish-American War and Great White Fleet period. Project: 218600