Ships and Boats USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)

TITLE: [Old Ironsides, U.S. frigate Constitution, built 1797], CALL NUMBER: LC-D416-22735 [P and P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-D416-22735 (b&w glass neg.) MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. CREATED, PUBLISHED: c[between 1900 and 1912] USS Constitution Unedited JPG

Digital ID: det 4a26420 Source: digital file from intermediary roll film Reproduction Number: LC-D416-22735 (b&w glass neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (138 kilobytes)

NOTES: Title from jacket. Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting. "050209" and "dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 22735. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

PART OF: Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, DIGITAL ID: (digital file from intermediary roll film) det 4a26420 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ , CARD #: det1994023247/PP

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USS Constitution, the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, fires its starboard guns while underway in Massachusetts Bay on July 21, 1997. This was the first time in 116 years the ship was underway under sail. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Chief John E. Gay.

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