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[USS CONSTITUTION at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. 1955] – Historic Reproduction

[USS CONSTITUTION at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. 1955] — historic photograph
[USS CONSTITUTION at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. 1955]. Historic photograph from the Boston National Historic Park collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[USS CONSTITUTION at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. 1955] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[USS CONSTITUTION at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. 1955]

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Moored at the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1955, USS Constitution sits in the same Boston harbor where she was built in 1797 and where she had already earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" during the War of 1812. By the mid-1950s the frigate was a working relic of the early Navy, and the yard around her had been a major shipbuilding and repair site for more than a century. This photograph documents the ship in that setting, a reminder of how close the nation's maritime past remained to its postwar present.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1955
SubjectsReference copy may be in SSF - Sailing ships. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Navy-yards...; Mass.--B-; Ships--US Govt.--; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,917 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133188

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