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Drawing

Gunboat on Ohio River

Date: 03 13 1862
Description: View down railroad tracks of the gunboat "Cinncinati" guarding Union approaches to Cairo on the Ohio River.
Drawing

Repair Boat — Gunboat Cincinnatti [sic] and Lexington

Date: 1863
Description: Four boats shown. One is a repair boat and the other two the gunboats "Cincinnatti" [sic] and "Lexington." There is a steamboat marked "Marie Denin"...
Drawing

Gunboat "Essex"

Date: 
Description: The "Essex" (New Era) transformed into a gunboat, at anchor. Next to it is a smaller boat.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Navy Times Are Changin'

Date: 11 1971
Description: Cover of "Navy Times Are Changin,'" an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of three men, at least one in navy uniform, surrounded by pigs pointing f...
Photograph

Navy "E" Award Ceremony

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Factory workers from International Harvester's McCormick Works line up on a stage to receive the Army-Navy "E" award, given to manufacturing plants achievi...
Photograph

Lewis Arms on Graduation Day

Date: 1943
Description: Lewis Arms poses in his Navy uniform holding a rifle on the day he graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
Photograph

Lewis Arms at Age 17

Date: 1946
Description: A portrait of Lewis Arms at the age of 17 wearing his Navy uniform. There is an inscription that reads, "To Mom & Pop Berry with Love," referring to his ne...

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