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Front of Portait oriented Postcard shows a black and white photograph of Constellation docked in Baltimore. The photo is framed in an black outlined square toped 3/4 of a circle. The outer frame is solid white. The view is a 3/4 bow, port side of Constellation recently made to appear as a frigate for the centennial. A small boat with two men is at the port quarter under the davits. Reverse: The landscape oriented back side is preprinted with the text "POST CARD" at the center top margin. Printed vertically along the left-hand margin is the text "Published by L. & M. Ottenheimer, Baltimore, Md." The upper right-hand corner contains a Green one cent stamp depicting a left sided profile of George Washington in an oval surrounded by a wreath. A postage stamp to the left reads "COCKEYSVILLE//DEC 7//11 AM//1914//MD" Under the Post Card heading is a horizontal line. Below that line is a vertical line spliting the field into two sections. The left, titled "THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR CORRESPONDECE" has the following written in black ink cursive: please and soon as I guess you know who this is from dont you. Howard F. Jackson Cockeysville Baltio Co and I dont live Home at the present when you rite put on c/o D.M. Wilhelm" The Right side titled "THIS SIDE FOR ADDRESS ONLY" reads the following also in black ink cursive: Miss Minnie Hoffacker/Alesia Carrol Co./Md."

Postcard showing naval recruits in formation on the parade ground at NTS-Newport. Path runs through middle of formation down to the water. Reina Mercedes visible in background to the left. USS Constellation visible in background to the right. Red brick NTS buildings can be seen to the right. Printed in red at upper left: "Newport, R.I. Naval Training Station. Battalion Drill." Reverse: Printed in green. Addressed to Miss Thelma Maxwell of Weld, Maine, with USS Constellation cancellation dated 4/14/1912. Message written in pencil, also dated 4/14/1912, details the barracks arrangement at NTS-Newport and is signed "A.A. Hardy".

USS Constellation docked in Baltimore for the Star Stangled Banner Centennial in 1914. View is 3/4 off the port bow. Warehouses are visible in the background.

USS Constellation docked in Baltimore for the Star Stangled Banner Centennial in 1914. View is 3/4 off the port bow. Warehouses are visible in the background.

3/4 stern view off port side of USS Constellation. Ship is docked in Baltimore for the centennial of the Star Spangled Banner. Ship's boats are visible in the water alongside as well as on the port and stern davits. Replica long guns protrude from the gun ports.

Known variously as a "Bull's Eye," "Buzzard's Bay 12.5 footer," "Buzzards Bay Boy Boat," or a "Doughfish," Nathaniel Green Herreshoff designed and built the first twenty of these small and popular "one-design" sport sailers between 30 October and 14 November 1914 (hulls 744-762.) Capable of seating several people, they measured only 12.5 feet at the waterline and originally sold for $420 each. Many more were built over the years and production of the boat ceased in about 1939. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, RI, designed and built boats, sail and engine-powered yachts, America's Cup racers, and military vessels from 1878 to 1945.

This photograph shows the first commercial flight over Tampa Bay in the air boat Benoist XIV. Former St. Petersburg Mayor A. C. Phiel (center) paid $400 for the honor of being the first passenger on the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line. Pilot Tony Jannus is on the right; the airline's organizer, Paul E. Fansler, on the left.

This photograph shows the Benoist flying over Tampa Bay. For its St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, St. Petersburg purchased this Model XIV from St. Louis aircraft manufacturer Thomas Benoist. The airplane could carry one passenger, who sat next to the pilot in the open cockpit. The Benoist was powered by a Roberts 75-horsepower, 6-cylinder, water-cooled engine.

Framed letter from Woodrow Wilson to Rev. Dr Thornton Whaling. Typed letter and envelope on White House stationary. Signed by Woodrow Wilson in lower right of letter. Single leaf and envelope with postmark two cent stamp. Postmark is Washington June 16, 1914. The main point of the letter is basically Woodrow WIlson declining to speak at the Columbia Theological Seminary. The letter is signed by Woodrow Wilson.