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Drawing

Sackets Harbor

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Description: Labeled drawing of Sackets Harbor, NY. War of 1812.
Photograph

Wright Brothers' Hydroplane

Date: 1912
Description: A hydroplane built by the Wright Brothers being tested by the U.S. Navy on San Diego Bay.
Photograph

Stern of USS West Virginia

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: Sailors clear the stern of the battleship USS West Virginia in berth F-6 at Pearl Harbor, most likely after it was hit by at least a few of the 7 to...
Photograph

USS Shaw Exploding

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: The forward magazines of the USS Shaw exploding after a Japanese bomb set the fore aflame as it sat in dock at Pearl Harbor. The midships and stern ...
Photograph

Capsized USS Oklahoma

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: Capsized USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. The Oklahoma was hit with a large number of Japanese aerial torpedoes which ripped an opening across ...
Photograph

USS Nevada and USS Shaw

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: The USS Nevada in berth at Pearl Harbor with the USS Shaw burning in the background after its forward deck was hit with a Japanese bomb.
Photograph

Ruins of the USS Cassin and USS Downes

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: The remains of the USS Cassin and the USS Downes floating in front of the USS Pennsylvania in dock at Pearl Harbor. On the left is th...
Photograph

Rescuing the USS West Virginia

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: Sailors in a motor launch attempt a rescue of survivors from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia during or shortly after the...
Photograph

Dedication to Nathan Hale

Date: 1913
Description: A monumental rock dedicated to Nathan Hale (1755-1776), schoolteacher, member of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary war and widely rega...
Photograph

Elevated View of Fort Seward

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Description: Elevated view of Fort Seward from Mount Rippinsky, showing Pyramid Harbor and Davidson Glacier in distance. Caption reads: "Haines and Fort Wm. H. Seward f...
Print

"The Battle of Baton Rouge, LA. Aug 4th 1862."

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Description: A large color lithograph with caption of the battle in progress.
Photograph

Landing Supplies

Date: 1864
Description: Supplies being landed from ships at City Point.
Poster

Food Will Win the War

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster urging newly arrived immigrants to conserve food to aid the allied cause. People in ethnic costume being ushered into the United States ...
Photograph

Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of shoreline, waterfront buildings, boat-dotted bay and Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial. The pink-marble, column-shaped monu...
Painting

Fort Sumter

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Description: A painting of a harbor view of Fort Sumter. A sailboat sails through the foreground waters, and the fort is in the background, with a United States flag wa...
Photograph

United States Navy Aviation Training

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Description: A rear view of a sea plane marked with the number 1700 landing in Hampton Roads Harbor. On the right, another plane can be seen in the water.
Painting

Painting of 'The Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac"

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Description: A painting of 'The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac.' The work commemorates the Battle of Hampton Roads, fought on March 8–9, 1862, and depicts ...
Photograph

Exterior View of Fort Sumpter

Date: 1866
Description: Exterior of Fort Sumter. A cannon has fallen on the steep shoreline and waves are hitting the rocks.
Plate 58
Photograph

Fort Sumpter

Date: 1865
Description: Exterior of Fort Sumpter [sic]. There are several men and a boat on the shoreline in the foreground.
Plate 56
Photograph

U.S.S. Wisconsin Launching

Date: 12 07 1943
Description: View of the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin launching. A large group of spectators is gathered in the foreground.

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