The Snapshots in Time Collection
'Pipe Down Scrub & Wash Clothes' - Sailors on Deck at Laundry Duty, USS Columbia Album, c. 1898-1910s
Sailors aboard an early 1900s U.S. Navy warship, likely USS Columbia, crowd the foredeck around a deck gun during a routine 'pipe down' evolution to scrub decks and wash clothes, with laundry strung overhead among the rigging, an everyday scene of shipboard domestic life. Project: 218601