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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58319

"Old Salts Spinning a Yarn"


Sailors and a Marine telling stories around a spittoon on board a U.S. Navy ship, circa the 1880s.

Courtesy of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Admiral Harold R. Stark.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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7 April 2000