80-G-347080: Midshipmen celebrate the 100th birthday of the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy October 7-13th, 1945, their girlfriends are expected to be on hand to help them out just as they were in the early days as recording in these pictures from the “Family Album”.  “Sweethearts of Graduating Class of 1905” is the caption on this classic from the historical files of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.  Posed on the band stand, this group, over-balanced on the distaff side, shows that the Midshipmen of that day, too, were not limited to one sweetheart apiece.  Photograph released October 9, 1945.    U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.  (2017/02/14).
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