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Sailors on board the cruiser USS Brooklyn crowd below decks, listening to music and playing cards.

Sailors of the Great White Fleet ring an arena in Lima, Peru for a bullfight in 1908.

Players from the football team of the cruiser Tennessee line up for a snap in Rio de Janiero, 1910.

Sailors on board USS Olympia play cards on deck, 1898.

Championship baseball team of the armored cruiser USS Tennessee poses in custom uniforms for a photo with banners, sometime between 1908-1910.

Sailors on board the battleship USS Maryland engage in a pie-eating contest.

This handbill lists the schedule of games on board USS New York on Thanksgiving Day, 1898, anchored offshore of Virginia.

Two boxers stand inside a roped-off boxing ring on board the battleship USS Oregon, shaking hands prior to a match.

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.

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