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Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, USN (left), Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and Rear Admiral John K. Robison, USN (right), Chief of the Bureau of Engineering, hold a model of the battle cruisers (CC-1 class) then under construction, 8 March 1922. In the foreground is a model of an aircraft carrier design converted from the battle cruiser hull. This photo illustrates the genesis of the Lexington-class aircraft carrier design. Standing in the background are (from left to right): Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, USN, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; Congressman Frederick C. Hicks, of New York; Congressman Clark Burdick, of Rhode Island; and Congressman Philip D. Swing, of California. Photographed at the Navy Department by Harris & Ewing.
Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives (# 80-CF-395b).

"Lexington" on the building ways at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, shortly before her launching, circa late September or early October 1925. Taken by a photographer from Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey.

USS "Lexington" (CV-2) in the final states of fitting out, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, in November 1927. (Merchant ship partially visible at right is the S.S. "West Grama", which served as USS "West Grama" (ID # 3794) in 1919.)

USS "Lexington" (CV-2).
Date and place unknown.

Passing through Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, (date unknown but, as deduced from the forward end of her flight deck, taken before her 1936 refit).

Overhead, underway, aircraft. Note shape of forward flight deck.

USS "Lexington" (CV-2) off Panama City, Panama, 25 March 1928, during her shakedown period.
Collection of Franklin Moran, 1967

Curtiss F6C fighters (lower right) and Martin T3M torpedo planes on the carrier's flight deck, as she arrives off San Diego, California, on her maiden cruise, 4 April 1928. Note lowered elevator.

Launching Martin T4M-1 torpedo planes, circa 1929

USS "Lexington" (CV-2) steams through an aircraft-deployed smoke screen, 26 February 1929, shortly after that year's "Fleet Problem" exercises.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral William V. Pratt.

USS "Lexington" (CV-2), top; USS "Saratoga" (CV-3), with her distinctive funnel stripe; and USS "Langley" (CV-1) , accross the pier from "Saratoga". Bremerton, Washington, 11 November 1929