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Cyanotype print of sailors doing their laundry in buckets on board USS Olympia, 1898.

Sailors wash on deck, using buckets of water, circa 1913.

A kangaroo mascot on board the battleship USS Connecticut poses with Lieutenant John E. Lewis in 1908 during the cruise of the Great White Fleet.

Three mess cooks carry heavy loads of potatoes.

Two officers on board USS Connecticut steady themselves for a try at a wheelbarrow race on the Fourth of July, 1908, during the cruise of the Great White Fleet.

Crew of the USS Connecticut participate in lively games on the Fourth of July, 1908.

A drawing depicting a Christmas Eve toast on board the battleship USS Kansas in 1908, during the cruise of the Great White Fleet.

Sailors on leave in China around 1908 pose with locals and a rickshaw.

Officers on board the gunboat USS Don Juan de Austria, a captured Spanish ship, recline in the wardroom. This is photograph was colorized for distribution and sale.

Sailors coal the USS Maryland at Punta Auneras (sic) Chile, 1912.

Sailors of the cruiser USS Tennessee replenish the ship's coal supply at Honolulu, 1909 or 1910.

Sailors on board the cruiser USS Charleston participate in holiday games on deck, taken Thanksgiving, 1893.

The silver service of the battleship USS Kansas, on display, and guarded carefully by two Marines.

This parrot on board USS Olympia lost a leg in the Battle of Manila during the Spanish-American War.

A shot of the galley on board USS Olympia, taken in 1899.