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Keystone View Company A Sailor's Sewing Day Reminds Him Keenly of Home and Mother--Life on Board a Battleship.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.201 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1917-1918 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 8.7 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy

A cluster of U.S. Navy sailors sit on the deck of a battleship. One is reading. One in the front is mending his uniform with a sewing machine.

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