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

Images & Photographs

Coast Guardsman Victor Mature

"COAST GUARDSMAN VI MATURE GOES NAUTICAL -- Like all true Coast Guardsmen, Victor Mature carries his cigarettes in his sock. The fighting Coast Guardsman, just returned from combat action aboard a Coast Guard convoy cutter in the North Atlantic, tucks away the smokes before boarding a plane at the Washington, D.C., National Airport. He is bound for a tour of the Midwest in the interest of the Third War Loan campaign, being conducted by the Treasury Department." No photo number/date. Victor Mature, USCGR From CG Historian's Office Special Collections, Leonard Webb collection.

VIRIN: 220211-G-G0000-018.JPG
Photo by: USCG Historian's Office
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Photo Details

Resolution: 2997x2420
Size: 0.66 MB
Location: National Airport