The following 38 lots consist a collection of 324 photographs (silver-printed), of a US Navy Band member that served the USA Black Sea - Asia Minor fleet, active in the area from ~1916-1923. The photographic collection is accompanied with seventeen (17) filled sheets of "Smooth Log" and two (2) filled sheets of "Cruising Record", dated from 1920 to 1923. As shown in these records, the journey starts in November 1920 from New York, reaching Europe in Portugal and continuing to Denmark, reaching Gibraltar in 1921 and cruising around the Black Sea and the Mediterranean until 1923. This member of the USS Utah Band transferred / served also in other USA fleet ships such as: USS Scorpion, USS Trinity, USS McCormick, USS Colorado, as noted in Cruising Record and Smooth Log. Most of the photographs focus in Constantinople - Asia Minor and Greece (mainly Athens just after the Smyrna catastrophe and the arrival of the refugees). Included some UNIQUE photographs of the SMYRNA CATASTROPHE AND FIRE (ΚΑΤΑΣΤΡΟΦΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΜΥΡΝΗΣ). The 8 photographs of the Smyrna on fire and the desperate people & refugees at Smyrnas quay, as well as the 4 photos depicting the retreating Greek Army and Greek army prisoners of War are published for the first time. Some other highlights featured: A photograph depicting the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II along officials in Istanbul, two (2) photographs depicting victims of the Turkish atrocities against the Armenians 1914-1915 entitled "Armenian Massacre 1914", a photograph depicting Russian Refugees, most probably after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Also seven (7) photographs from the Great St. Patricks Day Flood - March 1936. Also very interesting photographs from France, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Croatia, England, Montenegro, Monte Carlo, Malta, Denmark, Tunis, Morocco. ΣΜΥΡΝΗ, Βρετανικές δυνάμεις με κατεύθυνση προς την προκυμαία όπου έχει συγκεντρωθεί πλήθος κόσμου, πιθανόν λίγο πριν την εξάπλωση της πυρκαγιάς, χειρόγραφα "SMYRNA - BRIΤTISH LANDING FORCE". Photograph taken probably just before the spread of the fire. Dim. 10.8x8cm.