USS Idaho USS Mississippi - NH 86366

USS Idaho (Battleship # 24) and USS Mississippi (Battleship # 23) Fitting out at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa late 1907 or early 1908. Mississippi, commissioned in February 1908, is presumably the more complete ship, in the center of the photograph. Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1977. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.