1919 WW1 RPPC photo postcard USS Louisiana, bringing US soldiers home

$16.00 CAD

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Photo of the USS Louisiana, tugboats alongside, solders/sailors on deck. Text dates from March 9, 1919.

Based on AZO photographic paper used, photo dates from 1918-19.

Written on front:

2 of my students are the highest chefs de musique on this boat and I visit much with them

Written on back:

 “On board the U.S. Steamship Louisiana March 9, 1919.
Dear Friend, As I told you might be the case I arranged with the bureau in Paris to sail for America and am now on this great warship (paquebot de guerre) following a long southern course to the United States. I lose now Bordeaux and the Pyrenees but gain New York, Chicago and Mt. Vernon”.

 

(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale).

 

USS Louisiana (BB-19) was a Connecticut-class battleship of the United States Navy. She was the second member of the class of six pre-dreadnought battleships. During World War I, Louisiana was employed as a training ship before serving as a convoy escort in late 1918. After the war ended that year, she was used to ferry American soldiers back from France.

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