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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.
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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