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Drawing

Sackets Harbor

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Description: Labeled drawing of Sackets Harbor, NY. War of 1812.
Map or Atlas

Map of St. Augustine

Date: 1655
Description: Map from Drake Expedition in Florida, ca. 1585.
Drawing

Fort Howard Drawing

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Description: View of a fort with fortified walls and a flag flying from the fort. A river runs on the right of the image. A boat with sails floats on the river. Sold...
Photograph

Carl Schurz Monument

Date: 1915
Description: Advertisement with the Carl Schurz monument. Caption reads: "Castle-Pierce Printing Company, Aug. 1915", and at bottom: "Oshkosh, Wisconsin". Text on right...
Print

Fort Armstong

Date: 1829
Description: Hand-colored lithograph of Fort Armstrong, based on a drawing by Henry Lewis. Includes boats on the Mississippi River.
Magazine or Periodical

USS "Seneca"

Date: 1861
Description: View of the gun boat USS "Seneca".
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 Naval Training Station

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Description: The USS Constellation, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the U.S. Navy, is seen at the United States Naval Training Station, established in ...
Photograph

United States Naval Training Station

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Description: A view of sailors marching on the South Drill Field at the Naval Station Newport, established in 1883. In the background, a warship is in the Narragansett ...
Photograph

United States Navy Camp Wissahickon

Date: 1918
Description: A group of sailors sit in a sailboat while others steer during a sailboat and steering drill at the United States Navy Camp Wissahickon. Others observe th...
Photograph

United States Merchant Marine Training Ship

Date: 1918
Description: A view of a sailor and an officer tying a reef knot on a United States Merchant Marine Training Ship. Other sailors observe and behind them, a flag waves...
Print

The Moaning of the Tied

Date: 1860
Description: A howling dog tied to a post, with an empty food dish in front of him. Water is in the background with a sailing ship, probably from the blockade. Text abo...
Print

The Union Armada

Date: 1860
Description: A Union sailor and King Neptune stand inside a sea shell that is floating on the ocean. Between them appears a decorative circle with the Union Armada in i...
Book or Pamphlet

H.M.S. Terror

Date: 1838
Description: Position of H.M.S. Terror on the 22nd of February, 1837. The sailing ship was immobilized in the sea ice near Southampton Island, at the entrance to...
Print

Menu Cover for Fifth Anniversary of the Secretary-Generalship of Mr. Trygve Lie

Date: 02 02 1951
Description: Front cover of the menu and program for the Fifth Anniversary of the Secretary-Generalship of Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN...
Print

Souvenir Menu for Dinner for Kletzsch, Ott, and Kremer

Date: 10 08 1914
Description: First and last pages of the souvenir menu for a dinner by Mr. Edward A. Uhrig to Mr. Alvin P. Kletzsch, Mr. Emil H. Ott, and Mr. Waldemar Kremer at Republi...
Photograph

Sheridan Race

Date: 1914
Description: The sailboat "Senta" competes in the Sheridan Prize Race at Geneva Lake. The "Senta" belonged to Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, who is the skipper here. He was an ow...
Photograph

Antivari Harbor

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Description: Antivari (Bar) was the primary port city of Montenegro.
Photograph

On Lake Skutari

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Description: Loading a steaming field kitchen wagon (goulash cannon) onto a boat on Lake Skutari in Albania.
Photograph

Lake Skutari

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Description: On Lake Skutari (Skodar) in Albania. Austrian troops being loaded onto boats.

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