Photographs of the First Naval District

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The National Archives at Boston provides access to and preserves the permanently valuable historical records of Federal agencies based in the New England states. Among our holdings are photographs from the First Naval District, a now defunct district in existence from 1915 to 1976, which was located at the Boston Navy Yard and covered Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Included here are images from Photographs Depicting Naval Shore Establishments, 1939-1947 (National Archives Identifier: 1142646), and photographs culled from the Administrative History of the First Naval District in World War II, 1946 (National Archives Identifier: 1138081).