Is This The USS Maine? Cuba?

Good advice Debora. All of the photos are glued into the album. The first 10 photos are of nature/landscape photos and some are definitively marked New Hampshire (Elephant Rock), etc. They look like America and are possibly all of New Hampshire. Photo number 11 is of the cannons. Photo number 17 has a photo of a Greek or Roman looking mythological statue of a woman who looks like Venus de Milo in a museum. Photos 18-22 are of the ship and the rest are of homes, a beach house with people (shown here), people with old bicycles, and American looking landscapes/nature scenes. From photos number 46 and on, there are of all tropical scenes with shacks and palm trees.

 

They're certainly New Women. Wearing shirtwaists and boaters that became popular in the 1890s. Not an expert but... I suspect from the simplicity of their clothing's cut and their hairstyles, just a tad later. Early 1900s. Here's a Dana Girl cycling in 1896. Still Victorian in feeling and the young women in photographs more Edwardian to my eye.

Debora

 

Thanks for the info. Here are some more pics of people in the album and what they are wearing. I also found another clue telling me the name of the album is Ward's Flexible Albums. I never saw it before until today. I just googled it and there were several dates w/ mention of this type of photo album from around 1899-1905. The company that made the album was the Samuel Ward Company of Boston.

Here is mention of this album being sold in 1899:
https://books.google.com/books?id=hGI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA413-IA9&lpg=PA413-IA9&dq=ward's+flexible+albums&source=bl&ots=0aETwMZmHf&sig=ACfU3U2AjYiLlIIsBvxxIw68B8e8CB14jg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiuvJLlrP_oAhXalHIEHftRDxsQ6AEwAXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=ward's flexible albums&f=false


Apparently The Samuel Ward Co. was a book and stationary company begun by Samuel Ward (b. 1845 in Newton, Massachusetts) in 1868 Boston or Cambridge. In 1905 the company suffered heavy losses due to a fire. In 1913 the company's name changed to Samuel Ward Mfg. Co. Hmmm...

The clues seem to be emerging one by one. So I guess the ship is not the USS Maine after all. It is so much fun to play antique detective! Thanks for helping me : )

 

That bathing dress certainly looks Edwardian. Here's something similar -- with middies -- in 1905.

Debora

 

Yes, you are right. My pics must be around the turn of the century. That is a great picture you posted. Imagine trying to swim in those outfits? Must have been horrible, lol.

 

Those photo albums must have been popular. Here is another:
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=special_sc217

This below is one handed down in my wife's family (photos in it start around 1900):

 

But at least they could swim! Imagine the sensation of freedom after wearing corsets and long skirts. May look confining to us but absolutely liberating to them.

Debora

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet

The Great White Fleet left Hampton Roads, VA 16 Dec 1907 and visited Trinidad, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Mexico. They departed San Francisco on 7 July 1908. They stopped in Honolulu, Auckland, New South Wales, Melbourne, Manila, Yokohama, China, the Phillipines, Ceylon, Egypt, Gribralter and back to Virginia. My Aunt's husband was on the USS Maine (NOT the same one that sank in Cuba) The second one was launched in 1901. I have a whole set of postcards of the GWF and many photos of the sailors ashore in foreign ports.