MAINE Mon't comm'ee [Monument Committee] on WYOMING, W.R. Hears[t], J.W. Keller, R.A.C. Smith, Adm Badger, Gen Jas. Wilson (LOC)

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MAINE Mon't comm'ee [Monument Committee] on WYOMING, W.R. Hears[t], J.W. Keller, R.A.C. Smith, Adm Badger, Gen Jas. Wilson

[1913]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows the Maine Monument Committee aboard the Wyoming, the battleship which led the fleet during the unveiling ceremonies for the memorial to the battleship Maine, which had exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Members of the committee included: Chairman James Grant Wilson, William R. Hearst, George F. Shrady, John W. Keller, and J. Edward Simmons. In 1913, the monument was placed at the Columbus Circle and 59th Street entrance to Central Park in New York City. (Source: New York Times, Central Park Web site, and Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13058

Call Number: LC-B2- 2696-15

No known copyright restrictions

Taken on: January 1, 1913

Tags:

Library of Congress

dc:identifier=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13058

Bain News Service

General James Grant Wilson

Admiral Charles J. Badger

Dock Commissioner R.A.C. Smith

John W. Keller

William Randolph Hearst

great mustaches of the LOC

USS Maine monument dedication

May 1913

US Navy

USN

USS Wyoming (BB-32)

USS Wyoming

BB-32

Wyoming-class

Battleship

United States Navy

black and white

Charles J. Badger

Charles Badger

Badger

R.A.C. Smith

Hearst

Wilson

Keller

James Grant Wilson

James G. Wilson

James Wilson

Charles Johnson Badger « less

Sets appears in: • News in the 1910s

Groups appears in: • Picturing Public Service

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