Tintype of Robert Smalls, who along with sixteen other slaves sailed the Confederate steamer "Planter" out of Charleston Harbor and into the hands of the U.S. Navy's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 13 May 1862. Smalls and his accomplices...
Campaigns & battles; Naval warfare; Naval prints; Government vessels; Military officers; Sheet music covers; Music
Sheet music commemorating the U.S. Navy's successful attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard at Port Royal, South Carolina, 7 November 1861. This attack was carried out by the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under the command of Commodore Samuel...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows the Patoka, the navy's fuel oil tanker which will be converted into an airship tender for use with the navy's Artic expedition by air during the coming summer."
Text from back of image: "One of the greatest engineering feats in aeronautical circles in modern times is the U. S. S. Akron, the Navy's newest queen of the air and the world's largest airship. It is now undergoing extensive tests. This picture...
Text from back of image: "One of the greatest engineering feats in aeronautical circles in modern times is the U. S. S. Akron, the Navy's newest queen of the air and the world's largest airship. It is now undergoing extensive tests. This photo...
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Table of Contents: Duel with Donner's drifts; Colorful coating for coils; Lifesaving suits for the Navy's high fliers; The case for the laminating stickups; New media for art underfoot; Under the sidewalks for New York; The city of tomorrow, today;...
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Table of Contents: The diamond of many facets; From igloo to kraal; Coming of age; Super hayseeds; And one to grow on; The glorified sorter-counter; Rocky Mountain miner; The blanched-cloth mysteries; Detroit had to be shown; Packages of the...
Written on back: "Keel plates of the Navy's aircraft carriers Saratoga and Forrestal were fabricated of Lukens high tensile steel. 1955 Lukens annual report."
Text from back of image: "The 10-P-L, flagship of six giant Navy planes which successfully negotiated the 2150 miles of air and ocean between San Francisco and Honolulu, skids to a safe landing on the blue waters of Pearl Harbor at the end of the...
Text from back of image: "Like a weary seagulll, the 10-P-1, flagship of the Navy's squadron of six giant seaplanes which flew from San Francisco to Honolulu, comes to rest on the blue waters of Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, after its 24 hour flight...
