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Holy Shorpy, it’s Fleet Week!
I saw some drunken sailors skittering down the cobblestones near Christopher Street last night, and sent myself straight to Shorpy to find some nav...
I saw some drunken sailors skittering down the cobblestones near Christopher Street last night, and sent myself straight to Shorpy to find some naval-inspired shots. And my visit did not disappoint. I cannot believe Nurse Hamaguchi! That’s the best Ansel Adams image I have ever seen.
September 7, 1923. “Massachusetts Nautical School.” Sailors and shipboard pets. National Photo Company Collection, glass negative.
Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi at the Manzanar Relocation Center, California, in 1943. Medium format safety negative by Ansel Adams.
December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Small boat rescues a seaman
from the 31,800-ton USS West Virginia. Note the two men in the
superstructure. The USS Tennessee is inboard.
from the 31,800-ton USS West Virginia. Note the two men in the
superstructure. The USS Tennessee is inboard.
“Barchet, fullback, Navy, 1922.” Steve Barchet, backfield star of the Naval Academy in Annapolis. National Photo Company Collection.
July 9, 1862. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor on the James River,
Virginia. From photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne
expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy. Wet
collodion glass negative, left half of stereo pair. Photographed by
James F. Gibson.
Virginia. From photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne
expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy. Wet
collodion glass negative, left half of stereo pair. Photographed by
James F. Gibson.
November 24, 1923. Miss Anita Phipps, director of women’s relations for the War Department. National Photo Company Collection.
“Man demonstrating ship rescue apparatus” circa 1915 somewhere near New York City. 5×7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
May 1912. “Madame Gadski and daughter.” The noted opera singer shipboard in New York. George Grantham Bain Collection.
“Man operating water tricycle” (Supplemented by wind power?) Circa 1913. 5×7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
Ansel’s nurse reminds me of someone.
ah, yes.
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