Photo #: NH 92315 Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands Captured Spanish guns on display at Cavite, circa 1900. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 64,541 bytes; 740 x 490 pixels
Photo #: NH 88547 Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands Flagstaff on which the first United States flag to fly over the Philippines was hoisted at 8 AM, 3 May 1898. Photograped circa 1915-16. Collection of C.A. Shively, 1978. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 52,160 bytes; 465 x 775 pixels
Photo #: NH 92317 Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands Commemorative tablet, photographed sometime between 1917 and 1942. It marks the flagstaff on which the United States flag was first raised over the Philippines, at 8 AM on 3 May 1898. The tablet was erected and dedicated on 23 September 1917 by Post Ward Cheney No. 30, Veterans of the Foreign Wars, while Captain Edward Simpson, USN, was Yard Commandant. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 85,230 bytes; 740 x 545 pixels
Photo #: NH 75566 USS Olympia (C-6) View of the ship's forward 8"/35 gun turret, showing plaque between the guns commemorating the Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898. Plaque ribbon inscription is "Gridley you may fire when ready". Photographed circa 1900. Note sailor in front of the turret, wearing a red cross armband. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 86,809 bytes; 545 x 775 pixels

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28 March 1998