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This series contains items related to the history of the United States Navy, reflecting Franklin D. Roosevelt's lifelong interest in this subject. The series primarily contains naval related prints and paintings as well as portraits of navy personalities collected by and presented to Roosevelt. This series also contains objects directly associated with the navy and its ships, including badges and buttons, clothing, medals and medallions, sheet music, materials used aboard ships, relics created from former naval vessels, and a small group of items related to the Eyes for the Navy program which Roosevelt oversaw as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I.
National Archives Catalog Series: United States Navy Materials (National Archives Identifier 782673)
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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Print under copyr…
Convoy Entering Mers-El-Kebir
MO 2006.242.2
Mitchell Jamieson
1943
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Gray Morning
MO 2006.242.4
Mitchell Jamieson
1942
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Action Between the Serapis & Bon Homme Richard
MO 1941.3.174
Richard Paton
ca. 1779
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John Paul Jones
MO 1941.3.178
C. J. Notté
ca. 1779
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U.S. Constitution and H.B.M Frigate "Java"
MO 1941.3.188
Freeman
1814
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Monitor and Merrimac: First Fight Between Ironclads.
MO 1941.3.206
Julian Oliver Davidson
ca. 1886
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USS Potomac Rounding West Point
MO 1941.3.108
John D. Wisinsky (Wisinski)
1937
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The General Armstrong Surrounded by the British Fleet at Fayal, the Azores
MO 1941.3.189
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
1850
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USS Colorado
MO 1941.3.225
Basi Ivancovich
1867
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Paul Jones Americain
MO 1941.3.172
Unknown
18th-19th century
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Paul Jones shooting a sailor who had attempted to strike his colours in an engagement.
MO 1941.3.176
John Collet
1779
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U.S. Frigate Anchored off Philadelphia
MO 1941.3.268
Alexander Charles Stuart
ca. 1860-1880
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