USS VESUVIUS: 'Dynamite Cruiser'
lantern slide
PHOTOGRAPHS1898-07-03
3.25 x 4.00 x 0
Lantern slide; color view of US Naval crew members, probably on the deck of the USS OREGON; masking tape around glass edges; view of sailors atop the OREGON's forward 13-inch turret and around the port 8-inch turret may be watching the aftermath of battle off Santiago, Cuba, July 1898; Spanish-American War. See article in "The Log of Mystic Seaport", Summer 1998, Vol. 50, No. 1, p. 20.
1997.86.23