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 | 118k | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California
Panoramic view of shipways and outfitting area, 1900.
Wisconsin (BB-9), is fitting out at left. Ships on the ways are (from left to right): Paul Jones (DD-10); Perry (DD-11); Wyoming (BM-10); Ohio (BB-12); & S.S. Californian. | Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1971. The original print is in the Union Iron Works scrapbook, Volume II, page 157. USNHC # NH 75110. | |
 | 128k | The Wisconsin (BB-9) poses for a 1902 image by Enrique Miller while ancored in a Pacific port. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 149k | Close up view of the bow of the Wisconsin (BB-9), circa 1901 place unknown. Note one of her crew at work on the anchor chain on her starboard side. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 116k | Wisconsin (BB-9), from a postcard view, c.1901. | Photograph courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo added 03/20/08. | |
 | 74k | Wisconsin (BB-9), photographed off San Francisco, Calif., in 1901. Note the boat being hoisted out on the starboard side, and the jack and bow shield. | USNHC # NH 75108. | |
 | 105k | Wisconsin (BB-9), in San Francisco Bay, California, dressed with flags and with her crew manning the rail in honor of the Presidential party, 1901. Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted in 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. Note the California State flag flying from the launch in the foreground. | USNHC # NH 100334. | |
 | 72k | Off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, circa 1901. | Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.USNHC # NH 19-N-3-1-14. | |
 | 126k | Crewmen posed around the Wisconsin's (BB-9) forward 13"/35 twin gun turret, 1901. Photograph published on a stereograph card by C.H. Graves, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1904 or later. | USNHC # NH 89082. | |
 | 65k | Wisconsin (BB-9), off San Francisco, Calif., in 1901. | USNHC # NH 75109. | |
 | 83k | Steroscopic color printed photo by Enrique Miller Jr., circa 1906. | Courtesy of Paul Petosky. | |
 | 78k | Wisconsin (BB-9), entering drydock, circa 1906. | Courtesy of Paul Petosky. | |
 | 106k | Circa 1901-08, As Built. | USNHC NH 61955. | |
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345k | The "Great White Fleet" steaming in column, probably while departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, at the start of their cruise around the World, December 1907. Kansas (BB-21) is at left, followed by Vermont (BB-20). | USN photo # N-0000X-001 courtesy of navy.mil. Photographed by C.E. Waterman, Hampton, Va. | |
 | 290k | The "Great White Fleet" in the Straits of Magellan, 1908, from a painting by Henry Reuterdahl. | Photograph courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo added 03/20/08. | |
 | 99k | Commanding officers of most of the fleet's ships, photographed in 1908. Those present include (Seated, left to right): Captain Hugo Osterhaus, of Connecticut (BB-18); Captain Kossuth Niles, of Louisiana (BB-19); Captain William P. Potter, of Vermont (BB-20); Captain John Hubbard, of Minnesota (BB-22); Captain Joseph B. Murdock, of Rhode Island (BB-17); Captain Charles E. Vreeland, of Kansas (BB-21). Standing, left to right): Captain Hamilton Hutchins, of Kearsarge (BB-05); Captain Frank E. Beatty, of Wisconsin (BB-09); Captain Reginald F. Nicholson, of Nebraska (BB-14); Captain Thomas B. Howard, of Ohio (BB-12); Captain William H.H. Southerland, of New Jersey (BB-16); Captain Walter C. Cowles, of Kentucky (BB-06); Captain John M. Bowyer, of Illinois (BB-07); Captain Alexander Sharp, of Virginia (BB-13); Lieutenant Commander Charles B. McVay, of Yankton. | USNHC # NH 59552. | |
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192k | The "Great White Fleet" lies in San Francisco Bay on 6 May 1908. Nearest ship is an Illinois class (BB-7 / 9) battleship. Ahead of it are what appears to be two Maine class (BB-10 / 12) battleships. | Photo by Louis Bostwick, courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart. | |
 | 99k | Port side view of the Wisconsin (BB-9), as part of the "Great White Fleet", American Navy's round-the-world goodwill tour during their visit to Australia in 1908. | Courtesy of Warren McLean. | |
 | 96k | Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy. Attendees at the Society's organizational meeting, in Washington, D.C., February 1908. The photograph was given to the Society by Mrs. Annie Keith Frazier Somerville, one of its founders. Her mother had sent a photographer to Washington's Willard Hotel to take this view. The fourteen sponsors present to organize the Society were (Those identified on the photograph are marked "**"): Mrs. G.F. Toland; ** Mrs. John P. Pels (Miss R.W. Wright), Sponsor of Denver (C-14); ** Mrs. Earl Morgan (Miss Elizabeth Stephenson), Sponsor of Wisconsin (BB-9); Miss Helen Duchler, Sponsor of Ohio (BB-12); Mrs. George Sturdevant (Miss M.L. Drake), Sponsor of Iowa (BB-4); ** Miss Lorna Pinnock, Sponsor of Salem (CS-3); Miss Harriet Rankin; Miss Dorothy Sproul, Sponsor of Chester (CS-1); Miss Ida May Shearer; ** Miss Mary Campbell, Sponsor of Birmingham (CS-2); ** Miss Keith Frazier, Sponsor of Tennessee (ACR-10); ** Mrs. John South (Miss Christine Bradley), Sponsor of Kentucky (BB-6); ** Miss Minnie Conrad, Sponsor of Montana (ACR-13). The little girl is Miss Eleanor Gow. | Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy. USNHC # NH 95456. | |
 | 95k | "King Neptune" and his "Queen" on board the ship for Equator crossing ceremonies held on board during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise, 1908. | Courtesy of Mrs. Worth Sprunt, 1974, from the Collection of Rear Admiral B.F. Hutchison, USN. USNHC # NH 81446. | |
 | 185k | The Connecticut (BB-18) leading the other fifteen warships of the "Great White Fleet" into Magdalena Bay, Mexico on 12 March 1908 to take on coal and hold long-delayed target practice. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-59537, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 139k | The Connecticut (BB-18) leading the "Great White Fleet" into San Francisco Bay on 6 May 1908. The original photo was taken by C.E. Waterman. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-59537, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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192k | The Great White Fleet lies in San Francisco Bay on 6 May 1908. Nearest ship is an Illinois class (BB-7 / 9) battleship. Ahead of it are what appears to be two Maine class (BB-10 / 12) battleships. | Photo by Louis Bostwick, courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart. | |
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155k | Panoramic photograph by the Pillsbury Picture Company showing the review of the "Great White Fleet" on 17 May 1908 by Secretary of the Navy Victor A. Metcalf, embarked in Yorktown (PG-1), which is steaming toward the left in the right center of the image. Three destroyers are in the line nearest to the camera (from left to center), with either Hopkins (DD-6) or Hull (DD-7) in the center and Lawrence (DD-8) next astern. Eleven battleships are present, in the rows on the opposite side of Yorktown's course, and seven Pacific Fleet armored cruisers are in the most distant row. | Photo # NH 105310, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 99k | Wisconsin (BB-9), and the other ships of the "Great White Fleet". The ships are at Gibralter on 31 January 1909. | Courtesy of Eugene B. Canfield, donated by Joe Radigan and the U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History Magazine, December 2002 issue. | |
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