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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 85210-KN (color) Continental Ship Columbus (1775-1778) Painting in oils by W. Nowland Van Powell, depicting Columbus, under the command of Captain Abraham Whipple, bringing in the British brig Lord Lifford, while operating off the New England coast in 1776. See Photo # 85210-A-KN for a view of this painting in its decorative frame. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. Donation of the Memphis Council, U.S. Navy League, 1976. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 445 pixels

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12 May 2003