- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Knox, Frank
- Creator:
- Rogers, Kenneth, 1907-1989
- Date of Original:
- 1943-03-12
- Subject:
- Military personnel--United States
Ships--United States
Cruisers (Warships)--United States
Government vessels--United States
Auditoriums--Georgia--Atlanta
Social and civic facilities--Georgia--Atlanta
Military parades and ceremonies
Naval parades and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Light cruiser : CL-51)
Knox, Frank, 1874-1944
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Frank Knox with an unidentified man at the commemoration ceremony for the USS Atlanta III at Atlanta Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia.
The USS Atlanta III was a light cruiser and sank in November of 1942 in the naval battle of Guadalcanal. Frank Knox was Secretary of the Navy from 1940-1944. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.24.12
ahc082024012a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/82
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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