kolb

3 photos tagged kolb, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos taken?

1
1910
2014

 

Where were these photos tagged?

None of these photos are geotagged.

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

Members using this tag

Photos

Photos tagged kolb:

Loading photos…

See more on flickr.com →

Recent uploads

The last upload was September 2014.

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos:

Elizabeth Kolb (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    On March 17, 1915, the 15,000 ton superdreadnaught USS Pensylvania was launched at the Newport News (Virginia) Shipbuilding Drydock Company. It was the largest battleship ever launched anywhere in the world. Miss Elizabeth Ludoff Kolb (1896-1979) of Germantown, Pennsylvania, daughter of Louis J. Kolb of Philadelphia and a senior at National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland, had been invited to the launching ceremonies by Pennsylvania Governor Brumbaugh (term 1915-1919), who called her "the most beautiful and sweetest girl in Pennsylvania". Nineteen years young, Elizabeth was the official "sponsor" of the ship, which, as far as I can tell, means she offered the name for the ship.