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Photo Supplement to the French Warships Books

French armored cruiser Victor Hugo at Jamestown, Va., on 12 June 1907

One of the few limitations on published books is that space for illustrations is scarce and expensive. This is not the case on the web, and this opportunity is being taken to post photographs and other illustrations that are relevant to the book but could not be included in it. Photographs and plans shown in the book at full page width are generally not duplicated here, but some of the ones printed in half-page width are presented here in larger format to show additional details. Nearly all of the photos necessarily relate to the 1859-1914 volume. Of over 25 planned sections the following have been posted:

Squadron Battleships

Note concerning sources and rights The author acquired many of the photographs presented here from two sources, the collection of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) in Washington, D.C. (these have NH photo numbers), and small sellers online. He has made a diligent effort to identify and credit the original sources of these images, including by consulting websites of known image suppliers, but with indifferent success. The purchased images, many of which are postcards, mostly bear credits to commercial publishers who are unknown today, and the U.S. Navy collection contains many items collected by naval attachés in Europe in the 1890s, on many of which the source credits are absent, not visible, or unknown today. The author expects that these qualify as orphan works under Article L. 113-10 of the French Code of Intellectual Property and hereby asssigns to them the notation DR (Droits réservés). He offers his apologies in case his efforts have failed to turn up a holder of legitimate rights to an image presented here and, if notified, will immediately withdraw the image(s) while the matter is being resolved.