United States naval cadets and officers photograph album, 1863-1867

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Summary

Title:
Photograph album of United States naval cadets and officers
Dates:
1863-1867
Abstract:
Album containing 21 carte de visite photographs, and one tintype, of young US Naval midshipmen--probably cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy, which had been moved to Newport, Rhode Island during the Civil War--as well as commandants, lieutenants, and those of other ranks, dated 1863-1867.
Extent:
1 album (22 photographic prints) : albumen, tintype ; 16 x 12 cm (album)
Language:
Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photograph album of United States naval cadets and officers (Collection 94/274). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

Many of the cadets are wearing uniforms of the United States Navy, with anchor insignias visible on jacket lapels. Captions in pencil on frame below each photograph, including those frames from which the photograph has been removed. Photographs of the naval midshipmen and officers, are identified as: Midshipman Wm. Garty Little, Oct. 1866; Midshipman J.H. Dayton; A.P. Schack; Class of '66. Midshipman Wm. G. Little; USS Amphitrite (photo removed); Master Schmidt, US Navy; Lieut. J.D. Marvin US Navy; (photo removed); Master F.W. Dickens (photo removed); Commander Donald MacNeill Fairfax, USN, Commandant of Midshipman 1864-65 (photo removed); Midshipman Frank Turnbull; Midshipman M.B. Field; Augustus Floyd Delafield; Lieut. Alfred T. Mahan US Navy; Midshipman R.H. Cooper; Midshipman J.C. Kennett; Mid[shipma]n Maxwell; Mid[shipma]n G.A. Norris; Mid[shipma]n Hy Whelen; Lieut. Tecumseh Steele (photo removed); Asst. Eng[inee]r. Messimer, USS Colorado 1867; Mid[shipma]n H.C. White; Martin Armentrout; Asst. Paymaster H.P. Tuttle, USS Macedonian 1863; Maury; Mid[shipma]n W.H. Parker; Mid[shipma]n Ackley; Mid[shipma]n John J. Hunter & Wm. H. Parker (photo removed); Mid[shipme]n J. Taft and David Stuart (photo removed); Mid[shipma]n J.R. Adams; Mid[shipma]n Bramhall (photo removed).

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Physical facet:

Album contains 21 carte de visite photographs (approx. 9.5 x 6.3 mm), consisting of paper photographs mounted on thin cardboard backs, with printed logos of photography studios on verso, some of which are visible and include: Bailey Silver's Photograph Gallery of 395-397 Broadway, New York City; Fredricks Company, at various addresses in New York City (587 Broadway, 179 Fifth Avenue in Madison Square, Fifth Avenue Photography Gallery), Habana, and Paris; Joshua Appleby Williams' Room, Newport, Rhode Island; Henry Ulke, 278 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.; Fotografia Benque-Sebastianutti of Trieste; Silli of Nice and Vichy, France; J.D. Fowler Co. opposite U.S. Naval Academy, Newport, R.I.; and H. Warren, Waltham, Mass. Also included is a single small tintype portrait. Cartes de visite and tintype are slipped into sleeves on recto and verso of 15 album leaves, in which a gilt-framed window has been cut. Eight of the windows are empty.

Bound in brown leather album, decorated with a large embossed central medallion, and four smaller corner medallions; two pairs of metal clasps and catches along fore-edges (one pair only partially intact); all edges gilt; white moire-patterned endpapers; stationer's ticket, affixed to lower right corner of front pastedown, reads "Lockwood. 411 Broadway, N.Y."

Spec. Coll. copy: in modern beige clamshell box.

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Jane Carpenter with assistance from Simon Elliott; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Prepared:
© 2013
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, encoding added via Notetab Pro. Date of source: 2013 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photograph album of United States naval cadets and officers (Collection 94/274). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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