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Caption: "Last Rites." Shows a grave site with dozens of caskets ready for burial. A priest and two altar boys stand at one side of the caskets, while a large group of U.S. Navy sailors looks on from the other side. While sailing from port in San Diego on the morning of July 21, 1905, the boiler of the USS Bennington exploded, killing sixty-six of her crew. The victims were laid to rest in the cemetery at Fort Rosecrans. See also 96-07-08-alb05-142 and 96-07-08-alb08-222.
Date: 1905-07-23
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Caption: "Ancient Locomotives. Chicago Fair. Sept. 21, 1934." This photograph shows two steam locomotives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, on display at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, celebrating that city's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.
Date: 9/21/1934
