Navy Day

Navy Day
Title: Navy Day
Creator(s): Watson, Thomas John, 1874-1956, collector
Date Created/Published: 1945 October 27.
Medium: 130 photos in album ; 12.5 x 15.5 in.
Summary: U.S. Navy fleet movements, including Panama Canal passage, from Pacific war zones to the U.S. Navy Day ceremonies in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Variety of views of many warships, 40 of which are identified by name. General view of the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria during Navy League victory banquet. Commissioning ceremonies of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt showing Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Thomas Dewey, and Fiorello LaGuardia. Also shown in Navy Day ceremonies are Earl Warren, Harold Stassen, Admirals King and Halsey, and Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal.
Notes:
This record contains unverified, old data from shelflist card.
Presented to Secretary of War Patterson by Thomas J. Watson.
9 12' phono records of commissioning ceremonies transferred to Music Div.
Gift; Mrs. Robert P. Patterson; 1967.
Bookmark /2005677606/
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