United States. Navy (Officers)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
James Fenimore Cooper Collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 415
Abstract:
The collection provides evidence of the personal and professional life of James Fenimore Cooper, and to a lesser degree, the Cooper family, between 1792 and 1976. The collection documents Cooper's writing career, service in the United States Navy, and travels through Europe, and consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, legal and financial documents, clippings, artwork, and objects. As an author who was engaged in the process of printing and publishing his works, and who was...
Dates:
1792-1976, bulk 1792-1894
Emmons family papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1306
Abstract:
The papers, consisting of the personal and official papers of George Foster Emmons and George Thornton Emmons, document the history of the United States Navy in the nineteenth century and of early ethnological research on the native peoples of Alaska. The papers contain extensive correspondence of naval officers and the Emmons's family, ship's journals and captain's letterbooks, naval orders and reports, research notes and publications on Alaska, scrapbooks, and artwork by the Emmons...
Dates:
1821-1925
Henry Walke artwork
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3349
Abstract:
The collection consists of watercolors, lithographs, oil paintings, and drawings by American naval officer Henry Walke, depicting scenes from the American Civil War and Mexican-American War, as well as landscapes and maritime scenes from expeditions with the United States Navy to Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Africa.
Dates:
1827-1917
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- Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959 1
- American literature -- 19th century 1
- Angola -- Pictorial works 1
- Art and war 1
- Artists -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Australia -- Pictorial works 1
- Authors, American -- 19th century 1
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Archives 1
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence 1
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Diaries 1
- Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861 -- Pictorial works 1
- Brazil -- Pictorial works 1
- Canada -- Boundaries -- United States 1
- Chilkat Indians 1
- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States 1
- Desertion, Naval -- United States 1
- Diaries -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Drawings (visual works) 1
- Drawings (visual works) -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Engravings (prints) -- United States -- 19th century 1 ∧ less
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