Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
96.19.002
Accession#:
96.19
Credit Line:
Discovered in Collections.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
U.S.S. Juneau
Studio:
US Navy
Year Range from:
1951
Year Range to:
1965
Description:
Large black and white aerial photo of battleship "USS Juneau" (CL 119) at sea. Ship is a WW2 era ship, has 2 masts with "119" on front of ship. Crew, dressed in whites, along entire deck. . Photo matted in plain black frame. Lower proper right corner has paper tag on glass with "The Second USS Juneau…Built also at Kearny, N.J.. The 2nd USS Juneau was launched by Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, wife at Alaska's Congressional delegate on Juneau 15, 1945".
Back: Yellow paper backing with metal wire hanger. Top proper right has CBJ property tag w/ #04225.
Back: Yellow paper backing with metal wire hanger. Top proper right has CBJ property tag w/ #04225.
Notes:
Found in Collections. This is not the ship that went down at Guadalcanal w/5 Sullivan Brothers. There have been 3 "USS Juneau" ships. See files.
Removed from the front of the photo in 2009:
Lower proper right corner of photo has paper tag w/ "USS Juneau."
Reverse: adheared to the back of the photo was a paper tag with printing on it : "USN 431256 7—1—51 / USS JUNEAU (CLA—119) WAS FIRST SHIP TO FIRE HER GUNS AT NORTH KOREA INVADERS, MARKING THE BEGINNING OF MAVAL WAR AGAINST THE AGRESSORS IN KOREA. / OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO / RESEASED / BYR
Removed from the front of the photo in 2009:
Lower proper right corner of photo has paper tag w/ "USS Juneau."
Reverse: adheared to the back of the photo was a paper tag with printing on it : "USN 431256 7—1—51 / USS JUNEAU (CLA—119) WAS FIRST SHIP TO FIRE HER GUNS AT NORTH KOREA INVADERS, MARKING THE BEGINNING OF MAVAL WAR AGAINST THE AGRESSORS IN KOREA. / OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO / RESEASED / BYR
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Boat
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WW2
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Framed Black & White Photograp
Framed Black & White Photograp