Historic Documents & Official Publications (Database)

Documents, including PDF photo collections, reproductions and scans of drawings, illustrations, and images, from the archives of the U.S. Coast Guard and its five predecessor agencies: the Revenue Cutter Service, the Life-Saving Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Steamboat Inspection Service from the Coast Guard Archives and Special Collections, Coast Guard, and National Archives.

NOTE: Documents provided are in the public domain.

U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
2703 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20593-7031


U.S. Coast Guard Museum
Coast Guard Academy - Waesche Hall
15 Mohegan Ave
New London, CT 06320-8100

Contacting us:  U.S.C.G. Historian's Office

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Coast Guardsman Jack Dempsey

"DEMPSEY IS STILL THE CHAMP TO THESE FIGHTING MEN [--] Aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport ferrying fighting men to the European war theatre, Coast Guard Commander Jack Dempsey (center) is besieged by a rugged bunch of autograph seekers. The former world's heavyweight champion, making the overseas voyage, readily obliged." CG Photo No. 2846; no date. From CG Historian's Office Special Collections, Leonard Webb collection.

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Photo by: USCG Historian's Office
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