December 15, 2025
Tag: Austrailia
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Poster Postcards Part X
The US Navy Visits Australia
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U. S. Fleet Visits Australia The year before President Theodore Roosevelt left office, he dispatched the U. S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet on an around the world tour. Twenty-eight ships and 14,000 men left port in Hampton Ponds, Virginia for South America, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Malaya, and back home through Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar. One of the…
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April 3, 2025 1 Comment
Over 500 paintings by the native Philadelphian, Thomas Eakins, hang in museums around the world. They are exacting images of friends, neighbors, and celebrities who made their “marks” on society and influenced the path of history.