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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58683

United States Navy Band


Navy Band director Lieutenant Charles Benter (right) and Rear Admiral Benjamin F. Hutchison (left) inspecting the Navy Band's new uniform, at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., in about 1926.
This garb was informally known as the "Lion-Tamer Uniform".

The original photograph was received from the Bureau of Construction & Repair in 1926.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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6 March 2002