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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: June 2008
Caption: Washington Navy Yard (Naval Gun Factory), Bldg. 76. The Navy Museum.
Additional Description: The Navy Museum which opened in 1963 is housed in Building 76, the former 600-foot-long Breech Mechanism shop of the Old Navy Gun Factory. The north end of the building was erected in the late nineteenth century and the southern portion was added in 1899. A 400-foot addition on the northern end, used for fitting liners and reinforcing hoops to gun barrels, was removed in the 1970s. The Museum contains exhibits which commemorate the Navy's wartime heroes and battles and peacetime contributions in the fields of science, diplomacy, and humanitarian service.
Submitted: September 2, 2008, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p34017
File Size: 0.058 Megabytes

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