Information/Autograph request
Picture postcard sent by Bray to The Commander, Training Ship "Hartford", Navy Department, Washington, U.S.A on 5th October 1907 asking for his autograph and some information to be supplied.
The USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war, steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. Hartford served in several prominent campaigns in the American Civil War as the flagship of David G. Farragut, most notably the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. She survived until 1956, when she sank awaiting restoration at Norfolk, Virginia.