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| Title | Frigate U.S.S. CONSTITUTION with tugboat ARTHUR FOSS, Seattle, 1933 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1933 |
| Notes | On verso of image: Arthur Foss (tug), U.S.S. Constitution (summer 1933) |
| Contextual Notes | During the summer of 1933 the principal ports of the Northwest were visited by the historic United States frigate U.S.S. CONSTITUTION, recently restored to seaworthy condition with funds constributed by the nation's school children. Old Ironsides, manned by a crew from the steam and diesel navy, was operated as a glorified barge, being towed by the minesweeper GREBE. (421) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Constitution (Frigate)
Frigates--Washington (State)--Seattle
Arthur Foss (Tugboat)
Tugboats--Washington (State)--Seattle
Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Transportation Collection
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| Order Number | TRA804 |
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| Negative Number | UW7604 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Ships Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2001. |
