Set of 12: Stereoview Postcards Early US Navy Battleships

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No. 46-BATTLESHIP The Oregon is 348 feet long, 69 feet beam, 24 feet mean draft, and of 10,288 tons displacement. Average speed 16.79 knots per hour. Her side armor is eighteen inches thick; that on the main turrets, fifteen inches, and that on the main turret barbettes, seventeen inches. She has four 13-inch rifles, eight 8-inch, four 6-inch, twenty 6-pounder rapid-fire guns, six 1-pounder rapid- fire guns, two Colts machine guns and two 3-inch field guns. Two main turrets, each mounting two 13-inch rifled guns, are placed on the center line of the ship at a distance apart equal to about one-half the length of the ship. With her low free-board (about eight feet) and these enormous turrets, she is in appearance and reality, a magnified Monitor, of which type she is a "OREGON" (AFT) lineal descendant. A central superstructure between the turrets contains four 6-inch guns and affords space on its top for a large secondary battery of small guns. There is also another battery intermediate to the tur- ret and secondary guns that makes her superior in gun power to anything near her size afloat. At the corners of her superstructure and standing higher than the tops of the 13-inch turrets, are four other turrets, each mount- ing 8-inch guns. It will be observed that eight turret guns and two of the four 6-inch guns may be fired on each broadside, and that six of the turret and two of the broadside guns may be trained directly ahead or astern. The condary battery has an equally wide range of fire. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright bv Underwood & Underwood No. 32-THIS PICTURE TAKEN WITH And is here shown that you may see and experience, by comparison, one of the many great differences between twin-eyed and single-eyed pictures, whether movie, large photograph or half-tone. Two prints were made from this one-eyed negative and mounted side by side, so that one picture would appear before each eye in the scope. Now, place this picture in the Pan-Chro Scope. Immediately it becomes enlarged or magnified to the size of an 8"x10" photograph or half-rone. Observe that persons and objects in the "foreground" seem to be "pushed back," while persons and objects in the "back- ground" seem to be "pushed forward," untill all things seem to be brought to an even or flat surface. 1st That big gun to our right appears to extend out over the head of that sailor beneath, who is standing with arms folded --does it not? 2nd A portion of a davit, whose bent iron bar has a rope or cable hole in it, appears to extend some sixteen or eighteen inches over the mouth of the gun-does it not? 3rd. Back of this sailor, but a little to his right, is a young man in dark suit and without a hat and directly over his head appears to be the ridge in the gun formed by machining away a portion of the metal. Look for this chap in the twin-eyed picture. 4th. The tall sailor to our left with mustache, black tie and arms folded, seems to be so close to the turret that the rim of his hat strikes against the metal But you see A CAMERA WITH ONE EYE OR LENS three men back of him; therefore your experience and judgment tells you he must be several feet away, but how far you don't know, do you? 5th. The third man back of his left shoulder, the chap with a shock of thick black hair, he surely is standing against the turret, is he not? If a yard stick were placed in an upright po- sition, one end resting on his head, the other end would touch the hands of the sailor above him, who is seated, Japanese style. on the turret top, would it not? 6th And the men on the turret, in the back-ground, they are standing close up to the pilot house, are they not? At least they are so close to it, that four men abreast march- ing around from the right side of the pilot house could not pass between them and the pilot house without breaking into single file-could they? Every day you see this same condition in the movies-a couch bang up against the wall, the door next to it is opened and the villain walks with ease between the wall and the couch. 7th. Estimate the distance from the tall sailor to our left, back to the turret. 8th. Estimate the distance from the sailors on the turret, sitting tailor fashion, back to the pilot house Now take up this same view made with the twin-eyed camera, No 27, and experience. for yourself what a bare-faced "Prevaricator" this single- eyed camera is This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood No. 34-FRENCH INFANTRY HALTING EN ROUTE TO THE BATTLE OF AISNE The average French soldier looks rather slovenly. The baggy trousers go a long way toward creating this impression. The bulky and ungainly great coats, which you have elsewhere seen some of them wearing, is prac- tically sufficient for a covering when in camp, since it is extremely warm, and is manufactured from a porous class of material which swells and becomes waterproof in even a slight shower. The armament of French infantry is the Lebel rifle with bayonet. and priests, all inspired by the same exclusively military spirit, and so changed from their former selves, that no one would recognize them at first sight.....They are more than an army; they are a formidable family in arms to defend the common hearth. The Generalissimo (Joffre) inspires ve neration, but no fear, and the "piou- pious" gaily call him "Grandpapa." The commander is only superior by virtue of his functions. Discipline, ter- rible discipline, the breaker of wills elsewhere, a thing of iron to the Germans, is a thing of velvet here. If the fighting is impeccable and the work well done, all the rest is of small importance. If the soldiers sing like birds, amuse themselves boisterously, and play tricks on each other like children, so much the better. The bet- ter their spirit, the more bravely they will die; the more lively they are, the greater gallantry they will show in the field."-Carrillo. "The other day, near Chalons, in a bivouac,, I met a professor of the Sorbonne, very well known in fashion- able French drawing-rooms, who is now a private soldier. ..A few months of campaigning had sufficed to evoke in him those soldier-instincts which are làtent in the heart of every French man, be he ever so gentle and pacific. I have also seen diplomatists, bankers, actors, This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood No. 27-THE GREAT 12-INCH GUNS AND BRAVE GUNNER BOYS-SEA-GOING BATTLESHIP "IOWA" The "Iowa' is a battleship of the second class. Her tngines are 12,105 horsepower, her displacement 11,340 eons, and her registered speed 17.1 knots. Fourteen inch armor furnishes her passive defense; her equipment for active defense consists of four 12-inch guns, eight 8- inch, six 4-inch rapid-fire, twenty 6-pounders rapid-fire and four torpedo tubes. What size guns are those ahead of us? What is a turret? Can you see more than one search light? Where is the wheel which controls the rudder? Where is the compass kept? Could you put your head in one of these guns? Suppose this third man from the left, in the front row, the tall fellow with his arms folded, was named "Bill Jones." Now look at him closely, study his face, his every feature. Some weeks have elapsed and finally you pick up your daily paper and in big Caps you see this headline: First German sub-marine sunk by the Battleship Iowa. Gunner "Bill Jones" fires the shot that sinks the sub. Can you see "Bill Jones?" Does not your Memory at once present the Image of "Bill Jones?" The Pan-Chro Scope conveys real, substantial Con- crete Knowledge. It fills the mind with Memory images. It provides the Imagination with materials, which it can work over anew. View No. 32 is a picture of this same subject taken with a single-eyed camera. Compare these two views and learn from experience that it is only in the twin- eyed picture that you get the third dimension, true pro- portion. As the photograph excells the half-tone, so the Transparency excels the Photograph. If a "Movie" and a "twin-eyed" camera operator were both to receive the same order, viz.:-take a "close-up" view of a din- ing room table a still life subject, with immaculate lin- en, costly china, cut glass, silverware and flower decora- tions, and the "Movie" picture was to be thrown on a screen; while the twin-eyed was to be shown in a Trans- parency, the "Movie" would not "be in the race for a moment." A close-up of the one-eyed movie would show everything in gigantic form and out of all propor- tion; while the Transparency would show everything natural size. Not alone that, but the twin-eyed Trans- parency would alone show the true substance and nature of cloth and glass and silver and flowers. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood No. 2-BRITISH MOTOR LORRIES REQUISITIONED BY THE GOVERNMENT. FOR TRANSPORT SERVICE While resting here in the shade, let us examine these Lorries, as they are called in England, and learn what their duties are. Each motor truck is loaded with only one kind of goods, and after leaving the station, all trucks carrying goods of the same kind group them- selves together. Thus the meat trucks might start out first, followed by bread, clothing, hay, groceries, grain, gasoline or petrol, as it is called over here, and mechanical supplies. In this way, at their journey's end all goods of one kind are dumped together. The "first dump," as it is called, is an open field at the side of a road and well back from the conflict. Here the horse and mule transports come and get them, after dark,, and haul them to the trenches. Then the supplies are issued to each unit for distribution to its sub-units. To each motor vehicle is assigned three men, they are called first, second and third drivers, all expert chauffeurs In case of accident or death to the first driver, his place is taken by the second and so on. The first driver looks after the engine and driving of the car, while the other two look to the oiling, cleaning, greasing and assist in the loading and unloading. How many motor trucks can you count? How do the uniforms of these men compare in style, material and color with those worn by "our own boys?" How is this road illuminated at night? Is the road built of brick, stone or what? What name is given to this part of the army which supplies the food and clothing? This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood No. 30-THE U. S. BATTLESHIP "MISSOURI" LOOKING AFT FROM THE UPPER BRIDGE PAST THE 6-INCH QUICK-FIRE GUNS How many guns do you see; count them? Are they all of the same type and calibre? Can the six-inch guns be turned towards bow or stern? To the left is a small boat, containing a sailor, suspended over the water; what is that device called which sustains this boat? How many sailors can you count? Where are they? Do you see a search light? Can you see any guns on the stern of the ship, and of what calibre are they? The displacement of the "Missouri" is 12,500 tons. Length 388 feet. Beam 72 feet, 22 inches. Horse power 15,845. Speed between 18 and 19 knots an hour. Armament, four 12-inch guns, sixteen 6-inch; under 4- inch, ten. Two 18-inch torpedo tubes. Complement, 44 officers and 755 men. When we look at any object or place, we take away with us only as much knowledge as we bring to the place or object. Therefore things which we see and of which we know very little should be explained to us by those who are possessed of greater knowledge. "A newly imported elephant, for instance, is appre- hended quite differently by a London child, a zoologist, an African hunter, an ivory dealer, and a menagerie proprietor. The powers of vision may be approximate- ly equal in all of these observers, yet the total cognition will be different in each case, because of the different mental habits of each."-Maher. "Where the mind is, there we are, no matter where the body may be." When talking over the phone, or listening to the phonograph, the persons whose voices you are listening to seem to be near you. In the Pan Chro Scope you seem to be in or before the place or ob- ject you are looking at. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood * No. 28-THE SPLENDID BATTLESHIP "WISCONSIN" U. S. NAVY How many guns can you see protruding from the sides of this battleship? Are there any guns carried on the mast? Is this ship moving? What is the sailor on the anchor chain doing? How does the bow of this ship compare with that of the Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois? What does her armament consist of? How many men does she carry? Suppose the "Wisconsin" were now ordered out to sea. The left anchor would have to be hoisted and "housed" just as is the right anchor now. When far out at sea a "squall" comes up and the order is given to close all port-holes. How is the water to be kept out of the holes through which these heavy anchor chains run? If you have not been observant, you must pick up the scope again and examine closely the covers which close the openings. When you have done this, you have added to your original fund of knowledge. If the question ever comes up again with regard to this or any other battleship, your Memory will present you with an image of this peculiar but practical lock. Parents should study these views (most of them are inexhaustable), and then put questions to their children, testing their powers of observations and comparison. Books, papers and magazines which have heretofore been dry reading, because the child had not seen the object for which the word stands, will become interesting and fascinating. The Pan-Chro Scope is the greatest of all "objective" teachers. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood No. 29-GALLANT CREW AND GREAT 12-INCH GUNS (FORWARD TURRET) OF THE FORMIDABLE FIGHTER U. S. BATTLESHIP "MISSOURI" We are standing on the steel deck of the powerful first class Battleship "Missouri." Those enormous guns now pointing over the bow, can hurl 500 pound shells a distance of seven miles; within a range of three miles their marksmanship would be almost absolutely accurate. Two similar giant guns are stationed aft. Those smaller guns at the right and left are 6-inch rapid-fire. The 'Missouri" carries 16 of that pattern, with sixteen six- pounders, and she is equipped with secondary batteries of 3-inch guns and two submerged torpedo tubes. She has 11-inch steel armor. The construction and equip- ment of this one vessel cost $2,885,000. The man sitting directly in front of us beyond the Anchor-lift is an En- sign. Can you locate a warrant officer? Is there a private of Marines on this lower deck? Can you see any more marines about? How does the uniform of the seaman differ from that of the Marine? The new Maine, the Ohio and this ship are of the same class. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood No. 31-BATTLESHIP The displacement of the "Illinois" is 11,552 tons Length 368 feet Beam 72 feet, 22 inches Horsepower 12,757 Speed between 17 and 18 knots per hour Arma- ment, four 13-inch guns, fourteen 6-inch and eight guns under 4 inches. Complement, 34 officers and 662 men. This Battleship differs in shape and construction from those we have already seen. How many guns can you see? Where are the 13-inch guns located and can you see them all? How many 6-inch guns can you see? On the forward deck are a number of men; who are they, and what are they doing? "ILLINOIS" SHOWING 13-INCH GUNS, U. S. N. "It is held by some that the arrest in the development of the Orientals has been due to a lack of contact with the concrete, actual world which the educational methods of progressive nations secure for their youth. The Chinese pupil, it is said, is kept memorizing symbols all his years, and is as ignorant today of the world around him as his ancestors were 3000 years ago."-O'Shea. Millions of our own people are confined, so far as ac- tual contact through their senses is concerned, within a very small part of the world. Railroads, steamships, trolley lines and automobiles have made travel a possi- bility for many, but still it is, and must continue to be, utterly impossible for the millions to travel very much in this way. People are not content with the abstract knowledge they may gain from reading, Books, Papers and Magazines, they want concrete knowledge; to see the things themselves. But by means of the Pan-Chro Scope, the great mass of people, men, women and cnild- ren, can be given a wide environment, may be taken out into the broad, wide world. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood No. 23-THE ARMORED CRUISER "SARATOGA" Here is the splendid armored Cruiser "Saratoga." Note the graceful lines which characterize her. Com- pare her with the armored Cruiser "Brooklyn." The "Saratoga" has a displacement of 8,150 tons. Her length is 380 feet, 6 inches. Beam 64 feet, 10 inches. Horse- power 17,075. Speed between 21 and 22 knots per hour. Her armament consists of four 8-inch guns, ten 5-inch, and under 4 inch, 12 guns. Her complement is 34 offi- cers and 484 men. How many guns can you count? What kind of masts has she? What is the work of the Cruiser class of fighting ships? When you sit down in your home tonight and listen to a French Military Band, for example, playing the "Marseillaise," on your phonograph, what is your ex- perience? You are not having an actual experience, because the real band, its musicians and instruments are not before you. You are not having a Memory experience, because you have never really heard this band play. You are not having an Imaginative experience because no Im- agination could create those substantial sounds which reach your ears. You are having an Illusory experience, which the mind accepts as the equivalent of the real band. The phonograph makes use of sound or air-waves. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood No. 22-ABOARD THE FIGHTING CRUISER "BROOKLYN" LOOKING AFT FROM THE FORWARD BRIDGE Down below us you can see sailors, on the turret, at the stern and even in the military mast. Directly in front of us is a device like a derrick. What is it used for? Do you see a life-boat about anywhere? Is there any way by which the sailors can ascend to the tops of those three smoke stacks? Are these boys Jack Tars or Marines, and how can you tell? What are these low stacks used for the ones whose openings are turned in several directions? Do you know that the sense of touch, in its true re- finement, requires that we have two hands and that each hand be possessed of a thumb and fingers;-that hearing requires two ears, that smelling requires two nostrils, that taste requires a tongue and palate, and that seeing requires two eyes? Do you know that the most that can be said of pictures, taken with a camera with one lens or one eye-no matter how large they are,-photograph, half-tone or movie, is that they show Form only? Do you know that "Form without substance, is empty;" that the Intellect can not grasp and hold it? Do you know that if you stand on the roof of a sky-scraper and look out over a city, the image on each retina is no larger than your thumb nail? Do you know that the Pan-Chro Scope, or twin-eyes picture is the only form of illustra- tion which shows objects, places and people,-natural size, height, breadth and depth,-at natural distance and in their natural atmosphere? And above all it is the only form of illustration which reveals the nature, the sub- stance of objects and places:-cloth is cloth, iron is iron, bark and stone and mud and grass and wood,- all things reveal their true substance and these things the Intellect can lay hold of and retain. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood In a short time "Our Soldier Boys" will be on their way to Europe to participate in the greatest and most destructive war of all time. The ships on which they will sail must be convoyed by some of our ships of war, to protect them from pirates of the sea, the German sub- marines. Again, thousands of "Our Boys" will man these ships as Jack Tars and Marines. It is well, therefore, that we gain intimate knowledge of these boats, so that when we read about them, or learn that "our son" or brother "Bob" or sweetheart "Dick" has been assigned to a certain ship, we will know how that ship looks and what she is capable of doing. The Brooklyn's displacement is 9,215 tons. She is FIGHTING CRUISER "BROOKLYN" 400 feet, 6 inches long. Beam 64 feet, 8 inches. Horse power 18,769. Speed 21 to 22 knots per hour. Those four largest guns are for 8-inch projectiles. She has four more on the opposite side of the ship. A dozen of the 5-inch guns keep them company and besides, she car- ries twelve 6-pounder quick-fire guns and four torpedo tubes. Her complement is 34 officers and 538 men. Note her peculiar lines and bulging sides near the water line and compare with the Cruiser "Saratoga." The sailor lads are watching us from every available stand- . point. Let us now go aboard ship and standing on the left hand side of that bridge look towards the stern of the ship. This VIEW authorized for use in the PAN CHRO SCOPE. We will furnish continuous SERIES of the latest WAR and other PICTURES of National and WORLD-WIDE interest from time to time. Prices on Application. THE PAN CHRO SCOPE CORPORATION Copyright by Underwood & Underwood