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NH 45345 USS Mercury (ID # 3012)

Photo #: NH 45345 USS Mercury (ID # 3012)
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Title: USS Mercury (ID # 3012)
Description: Scene in troop spaces in a hold below the waterline, showing a card game in progress, with banjo accompaniment, circa 1918-1919. Note books at left, placed on board by the Red Cross and the American Library Association. Sign with the books indicates that the photo was taken as Mercury was transporting troops back to the U.S. from Europe after the World War I Armistice. Courtesy of E.E. Thompson. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 45345
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