3-010-704 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Capt. & Mrs. Mitchel, Jack Adams, May 31 1917 (date created or published later). Captain Charles Albert Adams (1846-1929), a U.S. naval officer who served as the commander of the USS Recruit, a wooden mockup of a battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I. With Adams are Mrs. Olive Mitchel, wife of New York Mayor John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) and a child, Jack Adams. The photograph was taken on Memorial Day, May 30, 1917, the day of the "launch" of the ship.