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New York, 1917. "Examination on Recruit." Our inductee gets weighed aboard the "landship" in Union Square. View full size. Geo. Grantham Bain Collection.

New York, 1917. "Examination on Recruit." Our inductee gets weighed aboard the "landship" in Union Square. View full size. Geo. Grantham Bain Collection.

 

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Looks like the paper is a height-weight chart. I was right about it being a scale. Of course you could never do this in a real Navy ship of the day, the ceilings were pretty low.

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