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Sailors of the battleship USS Rhode Island mug for a photo, covered in coal dust.

Championship baseball team of the armored cruiser USS Tennessee poses in custom uniforms for a photo with banners, sometime between 1908-1910.

Sailors on board USS Olympia dance with each other while the ship's band plays for "tiffin" (lunch) around 1889-99.

Officers and women dance the Mazy Waltz on the deck of the cruiser USS Olympia in 1898.

The spacious accommodations for an admiral on board USS Olympia.

Sailors on board the gunboat USS Elcano share a meal on the Whang-Foo River in China, 1916.

Sailors are (around table, starting at left): Clancy Hodges, Milo Smith, Branden, Dunham, Arthur Furnas, La Bounty.

Berth deck cooks on board USS Ossipee pose with food and cooking implements in 1887

USS Boston and USS Atlanta under sail circa 1889, followed by USS Yorktown.

Sailors on board the battleship USS Maryland engage in a pie-eating contest.

This postcard cartoon comments on the Navy's elimination of alcohol in 1914, prior to national Prohibition.

Filthy bandsmen on board the battleship USS Kansas pose with their instruments for a photo at Guantanamo Bay in 1912, during coaling operations.

Sailors on board USS Olympia sit down for a meal, 1898.

The luxurious wardroom of the protected cruiser Atlanta, seen in 1886.

This pre-WWI cartoon postcard depicts a certain problem with a heavy diet of beans in the Navy.

A sailor on board USS Olympia shaves. Cyanotype taken around 1898.