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this is from a brief "war" preceding WWI photo would be in early October 1912 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Turkish_War

This would most likely have been during the bombardment of Derna by Pisa and other Italian ships between October 15 and 18, 1912.

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Is it possible that the four towers visible in the background are oil drills?

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More on the Pisa and Italian Pisa class armored battle cruisers:www.cityofart.net/bship/rn_garibaldi.html (scroll down)

Pisa served in WWI, then was reclassified as a coastal battleship in 1921 and used as a training ship until being scrapped in 1937.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisa_class_armored_cruiser
Her sister ship, sold to Greece as the Georgios Averof, is the only remaining armored battle cruiser of this era and is a museum ship, at Faliro, Greece, near Athens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_cruiser_Georgios_Averof

How common was it to take photographs of other photographs back then? Notice the pushpins and what appear to be feet in a photograph underneath.

this is from a brief "war" preceding WWI en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Turkish_War Ootober 1912

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unfortunately, no immigrants would have traveled on this ship. This is the Italian cruiser Pisa, you can see her 10-inch 45-calibre guns on the left this is from a brief "war" preceding WWI en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Turkish_War

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The nuns' habit is that of the Sisters of St Joseph of The Apparition founded by saint Emilie de Vialar in France in 1832.