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War Department. 1789-9/18/1947
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Merchant Marine - Miscellaneous Training - COMBINATION MATTRESS OR PILLOW AND LIFE PRESERVER USED ON U.S. MERCHANT MARINE
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  • Scope and content: Original Caption: COMBINATION MATTRESS OR PILLOW AND LIFE PRESERVER USED ON U.S. MERCHANT MARINE. Mattress and pillow used in berths of sailors and firemen aboard on the Uncle Sam's merchant ships are of most approved type for sea use. They make good bedding and are best sort of life preservers. Their filling is a soft resilient tropical fiber known as kapec, which will sustain 25 times its own weight in salt water for 48 hours. Picture shows sanitary slip-covers for denim used on bedding on Shipping Board vessels, also strap by which to hold the pillow when used as life preserver.
Photographer: International Film Service
Date 1917 – 1918
institution QS:P195,Q518155
National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD)
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 45499800.

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  • Record group: Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs (National Archives Identifier: 494)
  • Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs (National Archives Identifier: 533461)
  • File unit: Merchant Marine - Miscellaneous Training (National Archives Identifier: 45273472)
  • 165-WW-272D-10
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