Image / Sailors chow at open air mess, Balboa Park, 1917

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Title: Sailors chow at open air mess, Balboa Park, 1917
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917 August
Publication Information: Coronado Public Library
Contributing Institution: Coronado Public Library
Collection: Coronado Local History Photograph and Map Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: During World War I, Balboa Park was used as a Naval Training Station. Here the jack tars are at luncheon (or rather “chow”) in the open air. San Diego.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 20 x 27 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0x0nf070
ccoron_016
Language: English
Subject: United States. Navy
Sailors
Place: Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.)

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