Graduates toss away caps
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Graduates toss away caps

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Graduates toss away caps

June 6, 1947
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.5 x 21.1 cm (6 1/2 x 8 5/16 in.)
Overall: 18 x 22.8 cm (7 1/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0357.0028
Inscriptions recto (printed on attached paper): 15622A / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / GRADUATES TOSS AWAY CAPS / MEMBERS OF THE 1947 GRADUATING CLASS / OF THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY FILL THE AIR / IN DAHLGREN HALL WITH MIDSHIPMEN'S CAPS / AT THE TRADITIONAL END OF COMMENCEMENT / EXERCISES AT ANNAPOLIS, JUNE 6. THEY HAD JUST TAKEN OATHS AS ENSIGNS AFTER RECEIVING / THEIR DIPLOMAS FROM SECRETARY OF NAVY / FORRESTAL. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / JD 6/6/47 1030PEDT STF-WX 22 / CAP ABC TMC PA LON

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