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A Medium-Size Ship Silhouetted against the Setting Sun in the Caribbean

2012-113
Accession Number
2012-113
4x5 inches (10x13 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350380194
Keywords
Presidential trips
Ships
Ocean
HST Keywords
Truman - Trips - Virgin Islands
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Credit:
U.S. Navy

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
A medium-size ship is silhouetted against the setting sun somewhere in the Caribbean. A flock of birds flies in its wake. The photo was taken during President Truman's trip to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Cuba, evidently from the Williamsburg. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.
Date(s)
ca.
February 1948