The Snapshots in Time Collection
Album Page 311: 'Pipe Down Scrub & Wash Clothes,' 'The Smoking Lamp is Lighted,' and U.S. Battleship Iowa - USS Columbia Album, c. 1898-1910s
This album page pairs two candid shipboard scenes, sailors doing laundry duty and an informal crew portrait during a smoking break, with a formal photograph of the pre-dreadnought battleship USS Iowa (BB-4) underway at sea. Iowa, a veteran of the 1898 Battle of Santiago de Cuba, was among the fleet vessels the crew of USS Columbia encountered and photographed during the early 1900s. Project: 218601