- GLC#
- GLC01896.131-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1898/09/20
- Author/Creator
- Kerr, Edwin T., fl. 1890-1898
- Title
- to unknown
- Place Written
- Newport News, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 27 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- Populism and Agrarian Discontent
"We are sending you under separate cover a souvenir of the launching of the U.S.S Battleship "Illinois"..." The souvenirs were made from the small pieces punched out of the ship's thinner plates before they were riveted to the ship.
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