This lively scrapbook page centers on 'Billie,' the ship's goat mascot, shown wrestling with a sailor near deck machinery and being fed a cigarette beside a gun mount -- playful images typical of the informal mascot culture aboard U.S. Navy ships of the early twentieth century. Surrounding photographs include crew portraits, a horse race ashore, and a floating dry-dock at St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, illustrating both shipboard camaraderie and the Caribbean port calls common to the 'Old Navy' era, roughly 1898-1910s. Project: 218600