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English: This hand coloured photographic postcard demonstrates the enthusiasm to which Sydney greeted the US Navy's Great White Fleet visit in 1908. It depicts a Sydney railway station, possibly Central Station, illuminated with coloured lights. Postcards were the most popular and cheap souvenir available to mark the American fleet's visit.

In December 1907 United States President Theodore Roosevelt sent the US Atlantic Battle Fleet of 16 battleships, all painted white in peacetime colours, on a 14 month goodwill cruise around the world. The voyage came at a time of tense relations between Japan and America and gave the US an opportunity to demonstrate its blue-water naval capabilities as well as strengthen diplomatic ties. The fleet arrived in Australia on 20 August 1908.
For more information on lightshows of the past, http://anmm.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/blaze-of-splendour/.
If reproduced or distributed, this image should be clearly attributed to the collection of the Australian National Maritime Museum; and not be used for any commercial or for-profit purposes without the permission of the museum. For more information see our http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1657.
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Object number: 00004068
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Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/10046917185/
Author Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
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  • Lightshow extravaganza!
  • The Great White Fleet
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  • US Navy
  • USN
  • US Navy visit
  • GREAT WHITE FLEET
  • Navy
  • 1908
  • Naval vessel
  • naval personnel
  • lights
  • lightshow
  • Sydney Illuminations
  • illuminations
  • CIRCULAR QUAY
  • SYDNEY
  • POSTCARDS
  • United States Navy
  • American Navy
  • American fleet visit
  • American ships
  • spectacular
  • celebrations
  • railway station
  • Central Station
Camera location33° 52′ 55.57″ S, 151° 12′ 24.97″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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