Miss Alice Wright-Mann at Christening and Launch of the U.S.S. West Virginia

Identifier:

048506

Collection Number:

A&M 1660

Title:

Miss Alice Wright-Mann at Christening and Launch of the U.S.S. West Virginia

Date:

1921/11/19

Description:

Alice Wright-Mann, of Mercer County, is pictured with a large bouquet of flowers and what appears to be a bottle of champagne.Ms. Wright-Mann sponsored the battleship which was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. of Newport News, Va. Wright-Mann was the daughter of a millionaire coalmine operator, Isaac T. Mann.

Subjects:

Portraits--W., Counties--Mercer., Battleships.

Personal Names:

Mann, Alice Wright.

Corporate Names:

U.S.S. West Virginia.

Acquisition Method:

Gift

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView, USS West Virginia