Super Photo Album for the USS Aroostook – SOLD

Description

Super Photo Album for the USS Aroostook.

This black photo album measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches contains 146 images, most of which measure 3 x 4 inches approximate (a bit bigger). There are 8 Real Photo Post Cards.  I have photographed most of the more interesting images. The RPPCs are great including:

• Two of U.S.S. Aroostook identified in period writing on margin.
• U.S.S. Aroostook & U.S.S. Shawmut (captioned) “taken at Hamilton, Bermuda Islands. on Dec. 25, 1918.”
• Different view of the two above, showing the camouflage paint on Aroostook, (captioned on back).
• Fabulous image of a Navy diver preparing to dive of Aroostook.  Id’d on margin, “Frazier, G.M. 1c Diver, U.S.S. Aroostook.
• U.S.S. Lamberton with fine caption by collector Chuck LeKites (who did all the fine calligraphy on some of the images); “#119 Flush Deck Destroyer Hampton Roads, Va. February 14, 1919.”
• “U.S.S. Kerkenna, Mine Carrier, Yorktown, Va, March 24, 1919.” Her paint is so bad, it looks as if they never let her into port with all the mines she carrys.
• Two RPPCs of NC4 Navy Seaplane- “First Plane To Fly The Atlantic, May 1919. Original Photograph Taken From U.S.S. ‘Aroostook’ (CM3) Which Was The First Seaplane Tender In Any Navy – The  NC4 Returned To The U.S. Aboard The ‘Aroostook’ In May 1919.” – the other image has similar caption by Lekites.

There were a few images that were loose like battle ships, a Collier (one of 4 built by the Navy -could this be the USS Cyclops, lost in the Bermuda Triangle? There is a good deal of navy and civilian ships and boats, such as Navy Coal barges, troops ships, USS Brutus, Mine Carrying Ship, armed sailors, deck shots, engines and gas tanks, and more.

Also, dry docks, locks, islands and lakes, night time image of carnival, travel scenes, from ship and on shore (desert, natural wonders, etc.), San Diego sites, more seaplanes, sailors – likely crew mates, a few of people or family?

The collector I purchased this from did a most credible job of writing this history up, so I have photographed it for convenience.

The album itself is in very good – fine condition. Most of the photos are held in their original position, and very very few missing. Some photos are a bit light; images of scenes taken from a distance making them hard to see unless you were the one taking them. Most are very good and most capable of tell the story of the first years this Minelayer with WWI service.