Archive Lot of Seaman Jack Newman, USS Oregon

Included in the lot are Seaman Jack Newman's US Navy Enlisted cotton "Whites" with stitched Navy blue wool collar and trim, and a matching pair of trousers. Item mounts a celluloid encased commemorative pin depicting Battleship Oregon at full steam within the text U.S. BATTLESHIP/"OREGON". Also included in the lot are his hat tally with USS OREGON stitched into it in gold thread, a white cotton handkerchief, a portrait photograph taken by R. Yamamoto of Itchome Aioicho, Yokahama, measuring 3.75" x 5.3" on silver gelatin, two copies of "The Bull Dog Gazette: U.S.S. Oregon" including Vol. 1, No. 5, and Vol. 1, No. 6, and a telegram signed by Captain William T. Burwell congratulating the crew of USS Oregon for their excellence in exercises conducted in 1904. Finally, the lot includes six pages cut from a gazette describing Oregon's 14,000 mile journey from San Francisco Bay to Jupiter Inlet, Florida, and featuring a large centerfold image of Oregon after her journey.

Laid down on November 19, 1891, and commissioned on July 15, 1896, USS Oregon was the third Indiana Class pre-Dreadnought battleship. Serving with the Navy through multiple commissions before she was ultimately stricken from the register in 1919, Oregon fought in the Spanish American War, Philippine-American War, Boxer Rebellion, and First World War. She is particularly well remembered for undertaking an arduous 14,000 mile journey around South America to join the North Atlantic Squadron. It was during her stop in Brazil that the crew learned the United States and Spain had entered a state of war, prompting her to make haste to Florida to join Admiral Sampson's attempts to blockade Spanish Naval assets in Cuba, resulting in the famous Battle of Santiago de Cuba. The portrait photograph was most likely taken as she was returning from the Asiatic Fleet in 1901. During that journey, she landed at Yokohama, Japan.

The Collection of Jonathan Liebrandt

This lot is located in Cincinnati.