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Drawing

Hamburg Landing

Date: 
Description: Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge.
Drawing

Boats/Rebel Gunboat

Date: 
Description: Rough sketch of a "Rebel Gunboat" and trees in the background.
Drawing

Ships on a River

Date: 
Description: Preliminary sketch of a distant ship on the river near an outcropping of land.
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

USS Illinois in Dry Dock

Date: 1901
Description: The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Ne...
Poster

Monitor and Merrimac Advertising Poster

Date: 1885
Description: "Terrific Engagement between the 'Monitor' and 'Merrimac.'" Battle scene of the Civil War battle produced by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Smal...
Photograph

Mushu Island

Date: 10 22 1943
Description: View across water of Mushu Island in the distance. There is a ship in the foreground, an airplane above, and the appearance of explosions in the water.
Map or Atlas

Map shewing [sic] the Several Routes Proposed for the Passage of Gun-Boats to the Lakes

Date: 1862
Description: Lithography of C. Van Benthuysen.
Photograph

Palau Islands Air Strike

Date: 04 20 1944
Description: Aerial view of three TBF's (all above the horizon) and eleven SBD's, which participated in Pacific Fleet's carrier-strike against Japan's bases in the Pala...
Photograph

Soldiers Departing for War

Date: 
Description: USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II.
Magazine or Periodical

Porter's Gun-Boats Passing the Dam in the Red River

Date: 06 18 1864
Description: Engraved view of gunboats passing the dam in the Red River near Alexandria.
Photograph

Captured German Submarine

Date: 1919
Description: Captured German submarine, possibly the U-C97, with men on deck. United States flags are flying and several men are gathered on top of the submarine. Anoth...
Photograph

U.S.S. Wisconsin

Date: 1947
Description: The six sixteen-inch guns of the U.S.S. Wisconsin shooting at a target fifteen miles away.
Photograph

Fuel Transfer

Date: 
Description: View from the USS Wisconsin making contact with two destroyers at sea. The ships are transferring fuel.
Magazine or Periodical

USS "Seneca"

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

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