Captioned 'Old Chums' by the album's keeper, this scrapbook page pairs two U.S. Navy enlisted men in white summer uniform, a younger sailor and an older, bearded shipmate, in a warm gesture of friendship. Cut carefully from their original photographs and pasted together, such composite arrangements were a popular way for sailors to commemorate close friendships formed during long tours of duty aboard ships like the protected cruiser USS Columbia (C-12) around the turn of the twentieth century. Project: 218601