December 15, 2025
Tag: US Navy
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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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Hallelujah, Amen! From the mountains of Maine to the beaches of California, in the early twentieth century “that ole time religion” was good-enough-for-me!” These are words that were sung to “wish-away” the erosion of Protestantism. In the hopes of re-awakening and revitalizing the Protestant religion in America, the country turned to the evangelist, one after another. Postcards documented many aspects of the era.