Keywords: Lot-5524-3: USS Illinois (BB 7) launching and christening by Ms. Leiter, Newport News, Virginia, October 4, 1898. Photograph by Rusk and Shaw. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Lot-5524-3: USS Illinois (BB 7) launching and christening by Ms. Leiter, Newport News, Virginia, October 4, 1898. Photograph by Rusk and Shaw. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. |