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Title
Photographs of African American sailors lost in World War I
Creator
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Contributor
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued
1919-1939
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information
Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Re-photographed studio portraits of African American sailors with typed labels added listing their names, ranks, ship name, and date killed or lost at sea. Three of the men were serving on the U. S. S. Cyclops, one of the more famous ships to have disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle in March, 1918.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Still image
Title from auction catalog.
Type
image
Format
7 photographs : prints ; sheets 16 x 11 cm or smaller
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4206846t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Military casualties
Photographs
African American sailors
World War, 1914-1918
African Americans
War casualties

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