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

1974 USCG Uniforms (History of Bender Blues) by James Cooper

"From Black to Blue: The Coast Guard Uniform Change" by James M. Cooper. An illustrated history of the adoption of the new "Bender Blues" uniform by the Coast Guard in the mid-1970s.

VIRIN: 1974_UNIFORMHISTORY-BENDERBLUES-COOPER.PDF
Photo by: USCG Historian's Office & James M. Cooper

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