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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: KN-10866 (Color)

"The Old Navy"
("Spinning a Yarn" aboard USS Mohican, 1888)

Oil on canvas, 37" x 49", by Rufus F. Zogbaum (1849-1925). Painting signed and dated by the artist, 1923. It was inspired by the photograph seen in Photo # NH-2889.

Painting in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection. Gift of Rear Admiral George C. Reiter, 1924.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-10866

 

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7 April 2000