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Box 2

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

USS Houston (CA-30), Cocos Island, approximately 1930s

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 70, Item: 4
Dates: Other: approximately 1930s
Scope and Contents

Inscription on front: "USS Houston at Cocos Isla[nd]"

Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Ellis, Manila, Philippines, 1941

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 60, Item: 4
Dates: 1941
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains black & white and color photographic prints, including some oversize and panoramic prints. The photographs are arranged into sub-series by general subject. Within each sub-series, the photographs are in alphabetical order according to the subjects of the individual photograph. Some of the photographs are copies of prints from institutions such as the National Archives or the U.S. Naval Institute. Box 4 includes a binder of photographs taken by a...

USS Houston (CL-81) launching ceremony, Mayor Otis Massey of Houston, Texas at the microphone, Newport News, Virginia, 1943

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6, Item: 4
Dates: Other: 1943
Scope and Contents Caption on card: "Norfolk, Va., 19 June 1943-- Otis Massey, Mayor of Houston, Tex., is shown at the microphone speaking at the launching of the new cruiser, Houston, 19 June 1943, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. Behind him is Governor Coke Stevenson, of Texas, and to the speaker's right is Senator Tom Connally, of Texas. In the right foreground is Lieutenant Commander Wilson Starbuck, USNR, Public Relations Officer of the Fifth Naval District, and Rear...