[Naval Photographica]

[Large Photograph Album Containing over 650 Images Depicting Life and Service in the U.S. Navy in the 1930s]

[Norfolk; New York; West Indies; Washington, D.C.; California; Hawaii: 1935-1938]. Photograph album with 664 original photographs. Oblong folio. Original leatherette covers, string tied. Light wear to edges of covers and album leaves. Photos in corner mounts; manuscript captions on leaves. A few photographs missing, several overexposed, but the preponderance of images present and clear. Very good. Item #515

A giant photograph album containing nearly 675 original images that documents a wide range of travel while serving in the United States Navy during the years leading up to World War II. The album begins with a short series of images as the Naval training base in 1935, before shifting to a cruise to Puerto Rico and then a period in New York City during 1936. Following this, the compiler shipped out to the Caribbean ("On the Shakedown Cruise," according to the captions) in January 1937, where he spent time in Trinidad and Barbados, and many pictures of local life and town scene are included. After a series of pictures from time spent on leave in Washington, D.C., and at home, the album picks up continues with images of travel across California, likely while on leave as well, including visits to the Imperial Valley, Tijuana, and Warner Springs. Following these is a significant run of images from a deployment to Hawaii in March 1938, before the album concludes with a series of very well taken photographs of further travel in Hawaii and the West. Overall, an extensive photographic compendium of a life well-travelled in the Navy during the mid-1930s.

Price: $500.00