Ships:sea history Gallery

EVNT2A-00079

USS "Constitution" being towed by the crew in rowboats away from the becalmed British Navy, War of 1812
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Lobster boat off the Atlantic coast of Maine and Canada

Lobster fishermen in the Grand Manan Channel between Maine and New Brunswick, 1890s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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PNAV2A-00033

Us Navy squadron commanded by Matthew Perry sailing for Japan, 1852: USS Susquehannah, Saratoga, St Mary's, a supply ship, Plymouth, Perry in rowboat, Mississippi, and Princeton (left to right).
Hand-colored woodcut of an 1850s illustration

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