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Taft Parade, Admiral Coghlan in auto, New York

A group of men riding on the back of a horse drawn carriage. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

US Navy (USN) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2) Christine Ellis (foreg...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Amanda Rothweiler, USMC Release Status: Released to Public Com... More

060721-N-8878B-133 (July 21, 2006)US Navy (USN) Equipment Operator 1ST...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Base, Point Loma State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Michael C. Barton, USN Release... More

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Third Class Brandin Huggett, from the Tico...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Persian Gulf Scene Camera Operator: IS1 Christopher Barb, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

U.S. Navy PETTY Officer 2nd Class Elson Liwag, Hospital Corpsman 2nd C...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kupang Country: Indonesia (IDN) Scene Camera Operator: MC2 Timothy F. Sosa, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digi... More

USS Blue Ridge sailors visit Shunko Gakuen children's home

Seaman Ashlie Booker, assigned to the U.S. 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge, puts on cosmetics with an orphan at the Shunko Gakuen children's home. Sailors from Blue Ridge gave out more than 70 gifts to ch... More

US Navy (USN) Personnel SPECIALIST 2nd Class (PS2) Doras Koch receives...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Scene Major Command Shown: USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN-76) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Kathleen Gorby, Usn Release Status: ... More

Petty Officer 3rd Class Kristoffer Tundayag paints

Petty Officer 3rd Class Kristoffer Tundayag paints the decorative window guard on the side of the Misono Kodomo-ne-ie Orphanage during a spring clean up that sailors from Naval Air Facility Atsugi participated ... More

US Navy (USN) Hospital Corpsman Second Class (HM2) Danielle Dinger res...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19) Country: Indian Ocean (IOC) Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Aw/Sw) Timothy Smith, Usn Release Status: Released to Public Combined... More

Chicago-area team members build strength through community outreach

Chicago-area Defense Contract Management Agency team members recently partnered with a local charity to package meals for hungry children around the world. Fourteen employees volunteered two hours of personal t... More

Seaman Myriam Villegas, from Houston, polishes a bell in the forecastl...

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 01, 2016) Seaman Myriam Villegas, from Houston, polishes a bell in the forecastle of the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan provides a ... More

201010-N-PS962-0070 RED SEA (Oct. 10, 2020) – Fire

201010-N-PS962-0070 RED SEA (Oct. 10, 2020) – Fire Controlman 2nd Class Kathleen Chapa, assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), attaches painted, tea and coffee stained paper... More

Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Ray Mabus tours areas of ...

MILLINGTON, Tenn. (May. 07, 2010) Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Ray Mabus tours areas of Naval Support Activity-Mid South that were damaged by flooding. The base was closed to residents and non-m... More

U.S. Navy SEAMAN John Coleman clears a clogged hose in the sand blaste...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Yokosuka State: Kanagawa Prefecture Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Camera Operator: MC3 Adam York, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

US Navy (USN) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2) Christine Ellis, fills...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Amanda Rothweiler, USMC Release Status: Released to Public Com... More

Sailors assigned to the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Apr. 26, 2013) Sailors assigned to the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) make pottery with Seijou Gakuen Christian Handicap Rehabilitation Center stud... More

060729-N-5330L-394 (Jul. 29, 2006)Family and friends of retired US Nav...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MC3 Matthew D. Leistikow, USN Release Status: Releas... More

060721-N-8878B-076 (July 21, 2006)US Navy (USN) CHIEF Steel Worker (SW...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Base, Point Loma State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Michael C. Barton, USN Release... More

Eiah, one of the house parents at the El Shaddai Orphanage serves lunc...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD 2003 Base: Camp Red Horse, Utapao Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Amanda L. Rothweiler, USMC ... More

US Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Roy Houchin, Joint Inter...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Dennis J. Henry Jr., USAF Release St... More

A US Navy (USN) CHIEF PETTY Officer Second Class (PO2) works with a gr...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Brandon E. Loveless, USMC Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

U.S. Navy Culinary SPECIALIST 3rd Class Brandon Right puts a layer of ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69) Scene Camera Operator: MCSN David Danals, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec 26, 2017) – Military Sealift Command

PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec 26, 2017) – Military Sealift Command civilian mariner 3rd Officer James Karas practices rescue breathing on a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) manikin during CPR training aboard the submar... More

U.S. Navy Storekeeper SEAMAN Apprentice Christopher C. Reed mixes pain...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Christopher L. Clark, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Ph... More

Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Christopher Cogar,

Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Christopher Cogar, left, from Cleveland and Aviation Machinist's Mate Airman Asunta Allen, from San Diego, measure a high-pressure turbine shaft before installing it into a F... More

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Underway Operations

200916-N-ML137-1019 PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 16, 2020) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Danilo Altamirano, from Miami, makes a denture mold in the dental office of the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS ... More

US Navy (USN) CHIEF Hospital Corpsman (HMC) Chris Gallegos, Medical Tr...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Banda Aceh Country: Indonesia (IDN) Scene Camera Operator: MCC Don Bray, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital... More

Eine Cracke von S. Thome Wirdt...

Dutch? naval battle. Engraving by Thodor de Bry. Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, India Orientalis (Peregrination in India), 1605, part 7, plate XII. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Capti... More

PHCS Ron Bayles South Korea....Vehicles come ashore from utility landi...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

[Ironclad vessel with rudder and paddlewheel]

Illus. in: Gaspar Schott, Technica Curiosa, 1664, pl. 30, opp. p. 388. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Marine engineering; ... More

Boston from Willis Creek / William Pierre delin.

Print shows distant view of Boston from across river. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-1781. This record ... More

Fresh intelligence. Monday. November 6, 1775. Williamsburg, (Virginia)...

Fresh intelligence. Monday. November 6, 1775. Williamsburg, (Virginia)...

A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns hou...

Print shows two cheval-de-frise and two buildings in the middle distance. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 177... More

A view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill

Print shows tents and wooden fence in foreground and Boston Harbor in the background. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... ... More

New York, with the entrance of the North and East rivers

Print shows distant view of New York City at the confluence of the North and East rivers. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... More

[Views from offshore of the New England coastline and islands at the e...

Prints show distant views of Castle Island and Governor's Island in Boston Harbor, hills along the southeast coast of Maine, and the entrance to Boston Harbor. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for th... More

[Views of the coastline of New York, Long Island, Staten Island, and t...

Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-1781. This record contains unverified, old data from Cresswell, 1975. Pu... More

A view of Boston - Public domain document scan of drawing

Print shows ships in Boston Harbor, with distant view of the city. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-1781.... More

[Egmont harbor - a distant view, Prince Edward Island]

Print showing a distant view of Egmont Harbor, Prince Edward Island, from chart of Egmont Harbor. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des B... More

[Views from offshore of islands in the Bay of Fundy and the entrance t...

Prints show distant views of The Wolves, a cluster of islands off New Brunswick in the Bay of Fundy, Grand Manan Island, and the entrance to the Saint John River, with ships passing in the foreground. Illus. i... More

The north point of Grandmanan Island in the Bay Fundy bearing E.N.E. d...

Print shows ships passing cliffs at the north point of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... More

Light house S.W.b.S. 1 mile distant

Print is oval insert on a chart of Halifax Harbor showing the lighthouse at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des B... More

View of Port George taken from the top of Binney Isle

Print showing a distant view of the harbor, with trees in the foreground, at Port George, Nova Scotia. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. ... More

Commodore Hopkins / R. Pollard sc., engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows Esek Hopkins, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform, in oval. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America; ... More

Charles Willson Peale - Catherine "Kitty" Floyd, bust portrait miniatu...

Gold-cased oval portrait miniature in velvet-lined container. Presented to the Library of Congress on June 15, 1977, by Rear Admiral Schuyler N. Pyne, U.S.N. Retired, of Annapolis, Md., a descendant of Catherine Floyd.

A British sailor offering a sword to an unarmed Spanish officer to def...

Engraved for Barnard's New complete & authentic history of England. Illus. in: The new, comprehensive and complete history of England : ... / By Edward Barnard, esq., assisted by ... Mr. Millar.... London : Pr... More

By George Clinton. Governor of the State of New York. General, and com...

On recto, Copy 2: Duplicate. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1... More

The caneing in Conduit Street. Dedicated to the flag officers of the B...

Caricature showing a stout naval officer attacked by Lord Camelford, who says, "Give me satisfction, rascal! Draw your sword..." Captain Vancouver replies, "Murder! Murder! ..." The print may reflect the growin... More

His excellency George Washington lieut. genl. of the armies of the Uni...

Print shows George Washington, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, wearing military uniform; he is holding his sword with his right arm, which is resting on the arm of a chair, and is holding a paper in... More

His excellency George Washington lieut. genl. of the armies of the Uni...

Print shows George Washington, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, wearing military uniform; he is holding his sword with his right arm, which is resting on the arm of a chair, and is holding a paper in... More

To Sinai via the desert. Statue of Waghorn at Port Tewfik

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: [Sta]tue of Waghorn at Port Tewfik. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of... More

To Commodore Sir Peter Parker... a birds eye view from part of Mount P...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Faden, William.

U.S.S. Somers - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Ashley.

U.S.S. Wichita - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Ashley.

A prospect of Port Antonio, and town of Titchfield, in parish of Portl...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Jamaica.

Com. Dahlgreen. U.S.N. - A black and white drawing of a man in uniform

Public domain photograph related to US navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sousa and Great Lakes Navy Band by Paul Stahr

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Iron clad steamer, New Ironsides

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Rease, W.H.

U.S.S. Saratoga, engraving, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Honorable Gideon Welles. Secretary of the Navy

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Putnam, G.

In Senate of the United States, April 26th, 1802. The Committee to who...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 226, Folder 40.

[Scene with windmill on right, Brooklyn Navy Yard to left]

(DLC/PP-1995:140.256) Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory no. 256. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

Tuesday, September 21st, (noon.) Most glorious news. Copy of a letter ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 190, Folder 26.

Cash in hand, occassioned by the capture of the British Packet Swallow...

Positive Photostat.; War of 1812 ballad.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 5... More

Commodore Rodgers, arrived! Boston Gazette-office. Monday morning 9 o'...

Imprint 2.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 50, Folder 4.

[Cuts] A happy new-year to Commodore Rodgers, or, Huzza for the presid...

Positive Photostat.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 50,... More

Ship United States - Public domain drawing

Detail drawing showing how the hull of the USS United States, under the command of Stephen Decatur, sails in the water.

United States & Macedonian - Public domain drawing

Preliminary drawing for an oil painting showing the sea battle between the USS United States, under the command of Stephen Decatur, and HMS Macedonian off the coast of Maderia on October 25, 1812. The original... More

The troops disembarking to attack Fort Oswego, under the command of Ge...

Seascape drawing shows British sailors leaving their ships and rowing toward Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. The 2nd battalion of the Royal Marines, under Lieutenant General Sir George Gordo... More

An information graphic for the U.S. Navy to commemorate the history an...

WASHINGTON (Aug. 22, 2014) An information graphic for the U.S. Navy to commemorate the history and heritage of the bicentennial of the War of 1812. In August 1814, British forces moving up the Chesapeake Bay at... More

Capture of Washington [Cut] On Wednesday, August 24, there was a sever...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; War of 1812- Ballads. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Co... More

[Napoleon I boards the Bellerophon to surrender] / Baugean delt. & scu...

Print shows a view of the HMS Bellerophon from the aft with a rowboat drawn along the starboard side and Napoleon I climbing stairs to board the ship in order to surrender to the British and Captain Frederick L... More

Navy yard, Washington, February 26, 1819. The opinion which had been e...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 191, Folder 6.

Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniæ, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus...

Astronomical chart showing an owl, raven, ornate bowl, sextant, snake, cat, wolf, centaur, air pump, and a ship forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 32.

The National barber - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a sailor, identitied elsewhere as Samuel W. Dewey, having sawn the head of Andrew Jackson off the figurehead of the U.S.S. Constitution, passes it to another sailor awaiting in a rowboat alongside t... More

Navy Yard, Brooklyn - for the Ladies' Companion / drawn by Lundie.

Print shows a group of people standing on a decayed section of the docks at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York. Illus. in: The Ladies' Companion.... New York : W.W. Snowden, v. 5, (1836 July), opp. p. 103.

Our country's flag! A new national song

Cover illustration for a patriotic song composed by George F. Cole, copyrighted in 1836. A young American seaman, holding an American flag with his right hand and raising his hat aloft with his left, stands on... More

The debilitated situation of a monarchal government . . .

A pointed comparison of French and American governments, prompted by events surrounding American efforts in 1836 to force France to honor spoliation claims for American shipping losses suffered during the Napol... More

Chart of the Potomac River and Eastern Branch from the Sister Islands ...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Also shows block numbers and major buildings. "Approved--T.C. Mendenhall, Superintendent, U.S.C. & G.S." Includes text. Available also through t... More

An exploring expedition on the Canal Street plan / The exploring exped...

Print satirizes Charles Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition, which left in August 1838. The upper left vignette shows Wilkes in a rowboat with scientists who use a transit or telescope to see fauna. The ... More

Map from "The History of the Navy of the United States of America. [Wi...

This image has been taken from scan 001033 from "The History of the Navy of the United States of America. [With portraits and a map.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, c... More

map from "The History of the Navy of the United States of America. [Wi...

This image has been taken from scan 000602 from "The History of the Navy of the United States of America. [With portraits and a map.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, c... More

map from "[The History of the Navy of the United States of America. [W...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from volume 02 of "[The History of the Navy of the United States of America. [With portraits and a map.]]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generat... More

Map of the River Jordan & Dead Sea : and the route of the party under ...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours, gradient tints, and soundings. Shows route of party and location of camps. Exhibition: The Call of Zion, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Sep 16, 1998-J... More

map from "[The History of the Navy of the United States of America. [W...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from volume 01 of "[The History of the Navy of the United States of America. [With portraits and a map.]]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generat... More

Supreme court of the United States. Susan Decatur, Appellant vs J. K. ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 197, Folder 1b.

[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to the right...

Governor of New Hampshire, 1823-1824; Democratic Senator, 1825-1831, 1841-1845; Secretary of the Navy, 1831-1834; Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-1841; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1845-1851. Sc... More

[George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to ...

Whig Senator from North Carolina, 1846-1855; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1841.

Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Gordon R. England (right) delivers his ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: US Naval Academy, Annapolis State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: CNO Scene Camera Operator: J... More

US Navy (USN) Sailors assigned to the Ceremonial Honor Guard Team fold...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Annapolis State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Daniel J. Mclain, Usn Release Status: Release... More

A N.W.b.N. view of Charles Town from on board the Bristol ... taken in...

Print shows Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, with the British fleet in the foreground, at the time of the assault on Fort Sullivan, with the city of Charleston visible in the background; prominent features id... More

US President George W. Bush huddles with the Cheerleaders from the US ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Philadelphia State: Pennsylvania (PA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Michael B. Lewis, Usn Release Status: R... More

This sarcophagus was the repository of the remains of the Roman Empero...

Picryl description: Public domain leaflet document, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

US Naval Academy (USNA) Midshipmen (MIDN) march onto the Lincoln Finan...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Philadelphia State: Pennsylvania (PA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Daniel J. Mclain, Usn Release Status: R... More

Martial artists from Republic of Korea (ROK) Naval Academy, demonstrat...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MC3 Mark G. Logico, USN Release Status: Released... More

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (center), U.S. Navy Admiral ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: US Naval Academy State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Ken Mierzejewski, CIV, Usn Release Status: ... More

The new CHIEF of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Mullen speaks after ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: U.S. Naval Academy State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Kevin J. Gruenwald, USA Release Stat... More

Three US Navy (USN) Patrol Craft sail up the Delaware River during a t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Delaware River Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Cale Hanie, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

Polk's dream Historic map, Library of Congress

Here Clay is critical of James K. Polk's public advocacy of the 54.40 parallel as the northern boundary of American territory in Oregon. The cartoon also alludes to widespread uncertainty as to the course the ... More