Notice the sailor at bottom right has a lot of reenlistment stripes but is only an E-4. Must have been in a little trouble. He wears a medal, however while the others do not.
Circa 1900. "U.S. Battleship Texas, chief petty officers."
USS Texas was a second-class battleship built by the United States in the early 1890s, the first American battleship commissioned and the first ship named in honour of the state of Texas to be built by the United States
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