NH 75457
USS Newark (C-1) ship’s Marine Guard, photographed during the 1890s. Note the blue sack coats and kepis not much removed from Civil War days, and what look to be M1884 Springfield Trapdoor rifles, weapons that would remain in service even when supplanted by the Winchester M1895 Lee-Navy bolt-action repeater. For instance, six Springfield M1884 Trapdoor rifles were recovered from the wreck of the USS Maine in 1900. NH 75457