Launching of Robert Peary's polar exploration ship ROOSEVELT at Verona Island, Maine, 1905

real photo postcard, white border

POSTCARDS
2014 Lang Collection
Waite, W.M.
USA, ME, Verona Island
1905
paper
3-3/8 x 5-3/8 in.

Real photo postcard, white border; handwritten on back "JV ME 161011"; printed on back "COPYRIGHT 1904 / W.M. WAITE / SPRINGFIELD, MASS."; printed on front at bottom "525 'ROOSEVELT', Peary's Arctic Ship, launched at Bucksport, Me., 1905"; launching of Robert Peary's polar exploration ship ROOSEVELT at Verona Island, Maine, 1905.

2014.49.4499

Gift of Monika and Steven Lang, 2014