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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-12670 (Color)

Action between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, 19 August 1812

Painting by an unidentified artist, depicting the two frigates fully engaged.
Photographed by the Naval Photographic Center in 1952, with the original caption providing no further information about the painting.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 140KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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14 February 2003