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Moving the U.S.S. Arizona Bell from Museum to Student Union, August 1951

Moving the U.S.S. Arizona Bell from Museum to Student Union August 1951

Photograph of six men at the bottom of the stairs of the Arizona State Museum in the process of moving the bell from the USS Arizona Battleship to the bell tower in University of Arizona Student Union, August, 1951. (AZ 517)

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