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805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 86349 Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia View looking north from atop the coal elevator at the southern end of the Experimental Model Basin (Building 70), circa 1900. Structures in the foreground are The Boat House (Building 51) at the extreme left and the Coal Storage Building (Building 103) in the center. In the middle distance are are (from left to right center): the Forge Shop (Building 111); the Breech Mechanism Shop (Building 76); and the Commandant's Office (Building # 1). Note the Capitol Building and the Library of Congress in the far left center distance. Courtesy of Lawrence Gichner, 1978. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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26 December 2001