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Photo #: NH 98220 Mrs. Edwin Denby, Wife of the Secretary of the Navy and Sponsor of USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) On the Sponsor's platform during the dirigible's christening ceremonies, held inside the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 10 October 1923. Mrs. Denby is ready to pull the cord that will break the christening bottle. Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 62KB; 545 x 765 pixels

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2 December 2002