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[Philadelphia] Evening Public Ledger. July 19, 1922, page 30, photo top center
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1922-07-19/ed-...
shows a similar photo. Miss Margaret Kates was launching Caisson B for the Delaware River bridge by smashing a bottle of champagne.

For the caisson, see

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95917057

She was the daughter of John B. Kates (1876-1947), judge and treasurer of the Delaware River Bridge Commission www.findagrave.com/memorial/192705358/ www.dvrbs.com/People/CamdenPeople-JohnBKates.htm see comment on photo in the Evening public ledger. [volume], July 18, 1922, Night Extra, Page 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1922-07-18/ed-... She married Andrew Fleming in 1929, s. www.newspapers.com/newspage/480391848/

"Sturtevant was laid down on 23 November 1918 and launched on 29 July 1920 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation; sponsored by Mrs. Curtis Ripley Smith; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 21 September 1920. Lieutenant Commander Ewart G. Haas assumed command of Sturtevant on 4 November 1920." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sturtevant_(DD-240)

I fixed the link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sturtevant_(DD-240)

A cropped version of this photo ran in the Evening public ledger., July 30, 1920, NIGHT EXTRA, Image 20 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1920-07-30/ed-... The launch of the USS Sturtevant: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/40800028952/

She was Ruth Sturtevant Smith (1898-1978) www.findagrave.com/memorial/23780900/ruth-smith, a sister of Albert Dillon Sturtevant, namesake of the destroyer.

Thanks Art Siegel for figuring out when this photo was taken. B-59, thank you determining Ms. Smith's name. I always like when we can add a name to these women who are identified by their husband's name.

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she was never completed and was sunk in 1924 for target practice...