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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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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Print under copyr…
Gray Morning
MO 2006.242.4
Mitchell Jamieson
1942
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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
U.S. Frigate Anchored off Philadelphia
MO 1941.3.268
Alexander Charles Stuart
ca. 1860-1880
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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
The Marine Convoy
MO 1941.3.272
Edmund Sears Sayer
ca. 1933
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U.S. Ship of the Line "Delaware"
MO 1941.3.187
Unknown
19th century
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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Boarding and Taking the American Chesapeake by the Officers & Crew of H.M. Ship Shannon
MO 1941.3.191
William Heath
1816
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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Engagement Between Constitution and Guerriere
MO 1941.3.185
Unknown
mid 19th century
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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Paul Jones the Pirate
MO 1941.3.170
A. Park
early 19th century
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The memorable Engagement of Captn. Pearson of the Serapis, with Paul Jones of the Bon Homme Richard & his Squadron, Sep. 23, 1779
MO 1941.3.177b
Richard Paton
1780
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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
The U.S.S. Congress
MO 1941.3.271
Walter N. Hill
1941
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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
USS Potomac in Long Island Sound
MO 1941.3.233
John D. Wisinsky (Wisinski)
1937
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Commodore Hopkins. Commandeur en Chef der Amerj: Flotte.
MO 1941.3.306
Unknown
1778
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