“This photo was taken when the Great White Fleet visited Sydney, Australia in August of 1908. During the visit the ships of the fleet were opened to visitors and the Minnesota's decks are crowded with many curious ‘Aussies’"[7]
This item is John Stark’s Ivory Cane, with an Inscribed Metal Band Underneath the Rounded Top that Says “Presented to Gen. John Stark for his Defence of Fort William Henry.”
This photograph was in the E. S. Farley Library Archives Digitized Files, Dollhouse Pictures [1954]. The date for the photograph has been identified as 1954 by a comparison with another newspaper clipping, “Her Hobby Helps Handicapped,” in Mrs.…
This newspaper clipping was found within a Scrapbook, part 1, created by Fisher in the mid-late twentieth century.
Transcription:
Dear Mrs. Fisher,
Here’s hoping
to see you again and
Congratulating you
Again