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Photo # NH 47029-A:  'Spinning a Yarn' -- Veteran sailors telling tall tales on board USS Enterprise, circa 1887 Online Library of Selected Images --
Picture of the Month Gallery for 2000

This page features all images used in 2000 as the Online Library's "Picture of the Month".

For later "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery


For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery, 1999; and Picture of the Month Gallery, 1998

To the best of our knowledge, all Online Library pictures are in the public domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


December 2000 Picture of the Month:


"Remember Dec. 7th!" ... Office of War Information poster issued to promote the memory of the 7 December 1941 raid on Pearl Harbor.



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November 2000 Picture of the Month:


Rear Admiral Bertram J. Rodgers presents Purple Heart medals to Sailors, Marines and Soldiers wounded in action during the first months of the Korean War, September 1950.



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October 2000 Picture of the Month:


Four F9F "Panther" jet fighters return to USS Boxer, during the Korean War.



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September 2000 Picture of the Month:


Sailors of USS Osprey, during the Korean War.



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August 2000 Picture of the Month:

Officers of USS Kearsarge in June 1864, soon after her victory over CSS Alabama.


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July 2000 Picture of the Month:

The U.S. Ensign frames the ships of a World War II convoy.


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June 2000 Picture of the Month:

USS Connecticut running speed trials in 1906.


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May 2000 Picture of the Month:

Sailors "Spinning a Yarn" aboard USS Enterprise, about 1887.


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For the same image, with humorous verses printed below it, see Photo # NH 47029

 


April 2000 Picture of the Month:

F6F "Hellcat" fighters land on USS Enterprise, February 1944.


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March 2000 Picture of the Month:

Yeomen (F) surround a sailor, at New York City, May 1919.


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February 2000 Picture of the Month:

USS New Jersey in a western Pacific storm, 8 November 1944.


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January 2000 Picture of the Month:

The first members of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1908.


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For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see:

  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 1999; and
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 1998

    For later "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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