LC-USZ62-47823: Captain John Paul Jones hoisting the first Stars and Stripes flag on board a Continental warship, the frigate Ranger, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 4, 1777. Reproduction of a painting by Clyde O. Deland. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (5/22/2015).

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