The Old Steam Navy

The photographs in these pages were found in a book

about Admiral Dewey, the Battle of Manila Bay and

the Philippine Campaign: Life and Heroic Deeds of

Admiral Dewey including Battles in the Philippines

(Globe Bible Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1899). Some

of the pictures seem to predate the Spanish-American

War, though. The images of the common sailors and

shipboard scenes give a fascinating glimpse of what

life in the navy was like 100 years, and more, ago, and

also put a human face on history.

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