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Arlington National Cemetery, USS Maine Memorial, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Arlington National Cemetery, USS Maine Memorial, Arlington, Arlington ...

Significance: "Remember the Maine" was the popular call of the "yellow" or sensational press, Congress, and private citizens throughout the United States as they rallied around the tragedy of 1898. The sinking ... More

Arlington National Cemetery, USS Maine Memorial, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Arlington National Cemetery, USS Maine Memorial, Arlington, Arlington ...

Significance: "Remember the Maine" was the popular call of the "yellow" or sensational press, Congress, and private citizens throughout the United States as they rallied around the tragedy of 1898. The sinking ... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charlestown Waterfront at west end of Navy Yard, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...

Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charlestown Waterfront at west end of Navy Yard, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...

Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charlestown Waterfront at west end of Navy Yard, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...

Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More

U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 133' Class, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 133' Class, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarte...

Significance: Following World War II, the U.S. Coast Guard sought additional vessels for its depleted fleet. Lacking an appropriation to construct tenders to its own specifications, the Coast Guard acquired ei... More

U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 133' Class, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 133' Class, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarte...

Significance: Following World War II, the U.S. Coast Guard sought additional vessels for its depleted fleet. Lacking an appropriation to construct tenders to its own specifications, the Coast Guard acquired ei... More

U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 133' Class, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 133' Class, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarte...

Significance: Following World War II, the U.S. Coast Guard sought additional vessels for its depleted fleet. Lacking an appropriation to construct tenders to its own specifications, the Coast Guard acquired ei... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Straight Two-Bedroom Duplex Type O, South end of Kamakani Place, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Straight T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Battered smokestack from C.S.S. ironclad ram Virginia No. 2]

[Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Battered smokestack from C.S.S. ironclad...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

Boat exercises, summer school camp, Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Aug. 26, 1920

Boat exercises, summer school camp, Naval Operating Base, Hampton Road...

Public domain photograph of historic place, landmark, 19th-century, vintage travel, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Pearl City Peninsula, Defense Housing Project Type 47, 310 & 318 Laniwai Avenues, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Pearl City Peninsula...

Significance: This housing type is significant as an example of the residences added by the Navy after World War II to the large shoreline lots at Pearl City Peninsula. These two houses are the only known rema... More

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The buildings of the original US Naval Hospital in San Diego, considered as a landscaped ensemble, form a regionally significant work of historical architecture. The group is noteworthy for its ha... More

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The buildings of the original US Naval Hospital in San Diego, considered as a landscaped ensemble, form a regionally significant work of historical architecture. The group is noteworthy for its ha... More

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The buildings of the original US Naval Hospital in San Diego, considered as a landscaped ensemble, form a regionally significant work of historical architecture. The group is noteworthy for its ha... More

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The buildings of the original US Naval Hospital in San Diego, considered as a landscaped ensemble, form a regionally significant work of historical architecture. The group is noteworthy for its ha... More

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

U.S. Naval Hospital, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The buildings of the original US Naval Hospital in San Diego, considered as a landscaped ensemble, form a regionally significant work of historical architecture. The group is noteworthy for its ha... More

Colonial Parkway, Navy Mine Depot, Spanning Naval Weapons Road, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

Colonial Parkway, Navy Mine Depot, Spanning Naval Weapons Road, Yorkto...

Significance: As one of the first two completed structures on the Colonial Parkway, the Navy Mine Depot Overpass employed the characteristic colonial brickwork and reinforced concrete arch design indicative of ... More

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Building No. 230, Naval Station Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Building N...

Significance: Building 205 is located within the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a training station (1898-1923), Yerba Buena Island was essential in the establishment of a modern Ame... More

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Cafeteria, Southeast corner of Daly Drive & Cromwell Avenue, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Cafeteria, Southeast corner of Daly Drive...

Significance: Building 607 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Tome Road, between Bainbridge Road & Route 276, Port Deposit, Cecil County, MD

Jacob Tome Institute, Tome Road, between Bainbridge Road & Route 276, ...

Significance: Constructed 1900-1908 on a hill above the Susquehanna River just outside Port Deposit, Maryland, the Tome School for Boys played an important role in private school, naval, and vocational educatio... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Tome Road, between Bainbridge Road & Route 276, Port Deposit, Cecil County, MD

Jacob Tome Institute, Tome Road, between Bainbridge Road & Route 276, ...

Significance: Constructed 1900-1908 on a hill above the Susquehanna River just outside Port Deposit, Maryland, the Tome School for Boys played an important role in private school, naval, and vocational educatio... More

[Admiral Schlei, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]

[Admiral Schlei, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Station Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Stat...

Significance: The Senior Officer's Quarters Historic District is significant at the local level for its association with the early development of military facilities on the West Coast. The period of significanc... More

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Station Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Stat...

Significance: The Senior Officer's Quarters Historic District is significant at the local level for its association with the early development of military facilities on the West Coast. The period of significanc... More

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Station Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Naval Stat...

Significance: The Senior Officer's Quarters Historic District is significant at the local level for its association with the early development of military facilities on the West Coast. The period of significanc... More

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Fire Station, Southwest corner of Cavanagh Avenue & Embarcadero, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Fire Station, Southwest corner of Cavanag...

Significance: Building 705 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ... More

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Fire Station, Southwest corner of Cavanagh Avenue & Embarcadero, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Fire Station, Southwest corner of Cavanag...

Significance: Building 705 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ... More

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Steel Warehouse Type, Between James & Humphreys Drives south of Embarcadero, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Steel Warehouse Type, Between James & Hum...

Significance: Buildings 213, 214, 312, 313, 314, 411, 412, 413, 414, 510, 511, 512, 609, 610, 611, 612, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, and 813 are contributing elemen... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, United States All-Steel Hangar, Wasp Boulevard between Kingfisher Street and Ranger Loop, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, United States All-Steel Hangar, Wasp Bo...

Significance: Facility No. 174 was part of the early expansion of the Army Air Field on Ford Island. It is one of the oldest hangars in Pearl Harbor and is associated with both Army and Navy aviation history on... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Senior Officers' Quarters Type E, 37 Halawa Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Senior Off...

Significance: This housing type is significant as the residence of flag officers of the Navy in Hawaii from 1941 to the present, and as an example of Hawaiian residential architecture during the 1940s, in a gro... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Splinterproof Shelter, Seventh Street between Avenues E & G, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Splinterproof Shelter, Seventh Street b...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It is one of four types of air raid shelters that were constructed during WWII at Pearl Harbor, in direct response to the December... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, Three-Bedroom Single-Family Types 8 and 11, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, Three-Bedroom Single-Family Types 8 and 11, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, Three-Bedroom Single-Family Types 8 and 11, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, Three-Bedroom Single-Family Types 8 and 11, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Pier 4, 2900 Main Street, Alameda, Alameda County, CA

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Pier 4, 2900 Main Street, Alameda...

Significance: Pier 4 is a contributing structure in the United Engineering Company Shipyard historic district that has been determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The United Engineer... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Two-Bedroom Single-Family Type 6, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Hawaii, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Post Office, Pearl Harbor Boulevard near Willamette Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Post Office, Pearl Harbor Boulevard nea...

This structure was moved to its current location in 1945. (5/14/03, KEY) Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Waterfront Facilities, Various locations throughout base, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Waterfront Facilities, Various location...

Significance: The waterfront facilities (drydocks, wharfs, piers, and mooring structures) are among the most important facilities at Pearl Harbor, serving the basic needs of the Navy for ship and submarine bert... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Transportation Building & Gas Station, Third Street, south side between Walnut Avenue & Cedar Avenue, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Transportation Building & Gas Station, Thi...

Significance: Building 231 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is significant chiefly for its direct association with the rail system at Mare Island. The 1918 building was used ... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Transportation Building & Gas Station, Third Street, south side between Walnut Avenue & Cedar Avenue, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Transportation Building & Gas Station, Thi...

Significance: Building 231 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. It is significant chiefly for its direct association with the rail system at Mare Island. The 1918 building was used ... More

M/V Husky II, Seldovia Harbor, Seldovia, Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK

M/V Husky II, Seldovia Harbor, Seldovia, Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK

Significance: USS LCI(L)-653 was one of over 900 large infantry landing craft built in the United States during World War II. The U.S. Navy designed these ocean-going troop transports at the instigation of the... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Early Navy Hospital Wall, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Early Navy Hospital Wall, Pensacola, Escambia ...

Survey number: HABS FL-258 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000595

U.S. Atlantic fleet, Charleston, S.C., Nov. 18 to 23, 1912

U.S. Atlantic fleet, Charleston, S.C., Nov. 18 to 23, 1912

Public domain photograph of United States navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Supersonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded by Clara Barton Parkway & McArthur Boulevard, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Supersonic Wind Tunnel Building, Bounded...

Significance: The Supersonic Wind Tunnel Building is an aviation testing facility contained within the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division Historic District. As the center for naval research... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

Saugatuck, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Saugatuck, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virg...

Significance: Saugatuck is representative of the T2-SE-A1 tanker class, which became the workhorse for the U.S. Navy during World War II. There were 481 tankers constructed in this category under the U.S. Mari... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Quarters A58, Maseda Road, near terminus south of intersection at Imhoff Road, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Quarters A58, Maseda Road, near terminus s...

Significance: Building A58 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building A58 is important to Mare Island in two respects: as an example of the long-standing tradition of the Navy bui... More

Navy Yard, Quarters B, East Side of Drill Field, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Quarters B, East Side of Drill Field, Washington Navy Yard,...

Significance: Quarters B was built as a residence near 1800 and possibly pre-dates the Navy Yard. The house stood through damage during the War of 1812 and has been continuously used as the residence of the se... More

[Charleston, S.C. The Charleston Hotel (200 Meeting Street)]

[Charleston, S.C. The Charleston Hotel (200 Meeting Street)]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Three-Bedroom Duplex Type 2, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, and Cedar Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenu...

Significance: Quarters 3, historically known as Quarters G, is one of eight unique residences at NAS Pensacola representing a distinct period in the development of the Pensacola Navy Yard. The two-story, irregu... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenu...

Significance: Quarters 3, historically known as Quarters G, is one of eight unique residences at NAS Pensacola representing a distinct period in the development of the Pensacola Navy Yard. The two-story, irregu... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenu...

Significance: Quarters 3, historically known as Quarters G, is one of eight unique residences at NAS Pensacola representing a distinct period in the development of the Pensacola Navy Yard. The two-story, irregu... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenu...

Significance: Quarters 3, historically known as Quarters G, is one of eight unique residences at NAS Pensacola representing a distinct period in the development of the Pensacola Navy Yard. The two-story, irregu... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Office, 3300 State Road P, Festus, Jefferson County, MO

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Office, 3300 State Road P, Festus,...

Significance: The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as Hematite Former Fuel Cycle Facility and the Westinghouse Electric Company Hematite Facility, was constructed over a period of thirty-one years... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: One of the major components of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The chapel is a large and imposing exercise in the beaux-arts style. Its copper clad dome dominates the ground... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: One of the major components of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The chapel is a large and imposing exercise in the beaux-arts style. Its copper clad dome dominates the ground... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Navy Yard Gate, South Avenue near intersection with West Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Navy Yard Gate, South Avenue near intersection...

Significance: This gate is a fragment of the old Navy Yard built c. 1835. It was almost totally destroyed by Federal gunboats in 1862, and was probably modified during the 1870 reconstruction. Unprocessed Fie... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Avenue between Ninth & Thirteenth Streets, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Avenue between Ninth & Thirteenth Streets, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Avenue between Ninth & Thirteenth Streets, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Avenue between Ninth & Thirteenth Streets, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Superintendent's Quarters, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Superintendent's Quarters, Annapolis, Anne Arundel...

Significance: With the companion Administration Building on the opposite side of the Chapel, the Superintendent's Quarters forms an important part of Ernest Flagg's Beaux-Arts scheme for the United States Naval... More

U.S. Naval Hospital, Corps Barracks, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

U.S. Naval Hospital, Corps Barracks, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San ...

Significance: A contributing structure in an eligible historic district. Not individually significant. (Designed and built to be a school and dormitory for student hospital orderlies.) Survey number: HABS CA... More

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Nurses' Quarters, East side of Chief's Court, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Nurses' Quarters, East side of Chief's Co...

Significance: Building 3, constructed in 1935 as quarters for Naval Hospital Philadelphia's nursing staff, forms part of the original hospital complex built during the early 1930s. Incorporating the same Art De... More

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Nurses' Quarters, East side of Chief's Court, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Nurses' Quarters, East side of Chief's Co...

Significance: Building 3, constructed in 1935 as quarters for Naval Hospital Philadelphia's nursing staff, forms part of the original hospital complex built during the early 1930s. Incorporating the same Art De... More

Navy Department to Thomas Jefferson, December 15, 1801

Navy Department to Thomas Jefferson, December 15, 1801

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

U.S. Naval Academy, Griffin Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Griffin Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: Griffin Hall was built in 1917 as an extension to Isherwood Hall by Flagg's disciple Jules de Sibour who had become consulting architect to the Academy. Griffin is a skinny rectangle (56' x 181')... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window "In Memory of a Naval Aviator Who Lost his Life in Pacific" for St. John's Church in Butte, Montana]

[Design drawing for stained glass window "In Memory of a Naval Aviator...

Design shows Thomas Ashworth(?) with Christian and Naval aviation symbols: V-formation of planes, Noah in the Ark sending forth the dove, the first trans-ocean flight, Navy destroyer, rainbow of promise, Great ... More

[ Danny Kaye and Vicki Carr greet officers on the USS Hancock]

[ Danny Kaye and Vicki Carr greet officers on the USS Hancock]

March, 1966 (date) The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written permission of ... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

[Dinner to Commander Robert E. Peary, U.S.N., Hotel Astor, March 5, 1910]

[Dinner to Commander Robert E. Peary, U.S.N., Hotel Astor, March 5, 19...

J138988 U.S. Copyright Office Title derived from copyright deposit records. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; March 2, 1910.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Junior Officers' Quarters Type J, Makin Place, & Halawa, Makalapa, & Midway Drives, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Junior Off...

Significance: This housing type is significant as an example of Hawaiian residential architecture during the 1940s, in a grouping of related types. The design is notable for the use of new materials and minima... More

Destruction of the rebel ram "Arkansas": By the United State gunboat "Essex," on the Mississippi River, near Baton Rouge, August 4th 1862

Destruction of the rebel ram "Arkansas": By the United State gunboat "...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1708

Kodiak Naval Operating Base, Aircraft Storehouse, U.S. Coast Guard Station, Albatross Avenue near Cape Spencer Street, Kodiak, Kodiak Island Borough, AK

Kodiak Naval Operating Base, Aircraft Storehouse, U.S. Coast Guard Sta...

Significance: This building is one of the three major support buildings erected to serve the U.S. Naval Operating Base in World War II; this building retains much of its integrity and contributes to the general... More

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Convalescent Ward, South side of Jackman Road, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Convalescent Ward, South side of Jackman ...

Significance: Building 54 is one among a connected complex of 12 Convalescent Ward buildings (47-58) that were constructed in 1945 to house convalescent wards and specialized therapeutic facilities for injured ... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 9, Between Piers 8 & 10, along Mystic River on Charlestown Waterfront at eastern edge of Navy Yard, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 9, Between Piers 8 & 10, along Mystic Rive...

Significance: Wharfs and piers were critical to the Navy Yard's mission of shipbuilding and maintenance, and Pier 9 occupies the site of one of the early wharfs at Charlestown Navy Yard. Originally known as Sh... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Director's Residence, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil County, MD

Jacob Tome Institute, Director's Residence, Tome Road, Port Deposit, C...

Significance: As the residence of the directors of the Tome School for Boys, the house was at the social and management core of school life. Architecturally, it is a fine, formal example of a Georgian Revival ... More

Mission Santa Ynez, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

Mission Santa Ynez, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, ...

STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Mission Santa Ynez is significant as the last surviving example of the thirty-one Mission tankers built by The Marinship Corporation. The design was an adaptation of the ... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters, Q-6 North Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters, Q-6 North Avenue, P...

Significance: Historically known as Quarters H, Quarters 6 is one of eight quarters on North Avenue at NAS Pensacola, whose development reflects the 19th-century history of the Pensacola Navy Yard. The two-stor... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Annex, Near Russell Avenue (previously Avenue E), between of Facility Nos. 1C & 1E , Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Annex, Near Russell Aven...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It is associated with the great expansion of facilities and personnel during WWII. It functioned as a secure fireproof record stor... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Berthing Wharf S378, Beckoning Point, Southeast of Cowpens Street, Ford Island, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Berthing Wharf S378, Beckoning Point, S...

Significance: Wharf F-5 is rated as a Category 3 historical structure. A Category 3 building or structure is defined as only of minor importance to the historic character of Pearl Harbor. Wharf F-5 is located... More

[Charleston, S.C. View, from roof of Orphan Asylum; The Citadel in middle distance]

[Charleston, S.C. View, from roof of Orphan Asylum; The Citadel in mid...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery (protected with sand bags) south of Yorktown. 32-pdr. Navy gun in foreground, far gun - 24-pdr. siege piece

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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