1909 Article Big Guns Explosives Ship Robley Evans Dart - ORIGINAL HM1 XES4 19 x 19 cm

19 x 19 cm

This is an excellent original 1900 black and white print ad for promoting the Chickering Pianos from John Wanamaker Department Store located in New York

which was on anti-submarine duty off the Atlantic Coast

This is an excellent original 1920 two-color print of a painting by William James Aylward

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1909 Article Big Guns Explosives Ship Robley Evans Dart - ORIGINAL HM1 XES4 19 x 19 cmThis is an original 1909 11 page article titled, "Handling Big Guns and High Explosives on Our Battle Ships," by Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans. The article features images of a sectional view of a turret, the battleship the New Hampshire, the battleship Missouri, and other diagrams. The article writes, "If the truth could be proved of the assertion recently made by a reckless naval critic that "never, since the use of powder upon fighting ships, has