Visual Materials
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Artists: C.P. Publishers: Harper's Weekly Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Date is determined by the vessels listed in the print; the "Steamships on the Atlantic" are the Arizona, Henry Chauncey, New York, Rising Star, Ocean Queen, and Northern Light; the list of vessels on the Pacific are the Golden City, Montana, Constitution, Sacramento, Golden Age, and St. Louis.
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Image depicts a man holding a book and apparently preaching to Chinese immigrants. "Our engraving on page 461 is from a sketch made by our artist on board one of the Pacific Mail steams ships that ply between San Francisco and the various ports of Japan. There is hardly a steam ship on any ocean with out a clergyman among her passengers, and he is generally invited to conduct service on Sundays..."--on verso, printed text from p. 462.
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"264 Illustrated News [April 23, 1853"--across top of the page. "15--"--on frame mat. The image is of the first Tennessee operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; built in 1849, she was purchased in October, 1849, from the Savannah Steam Navigation Company; from 1850 to 1853, she operated between San Francisco and Panama; she was wrecked on 6 March 1853, at Bolinas Bay, four miles north of the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Focus of item: Tennessee.
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An album with 15 carte-de-visite studio portraits of officers and midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy and USS Constitution. Among the officers and crew included are Naval Academy Superintendent George Smith Blake, Edward P. Lull, Charles L. Huntington, and USS Constitution boatswain's mate Thomas ("Old Tom") Hunter, midshipmen Bowman H. McCalla (entered the Academy in 1861, graduated November 1864), Charles H. Stockton (entered 1861, graduated October 1865), C.P. Griswold, and L.M. Albright. The album includes handwritten labels loosely inserted into some of the frames, often with the names and hometowns of other midshipmen. The frame on page 2 is empty and contains an inserted paper strip labeled "Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn, New York." The album is inscribed on the title page in the same hand as the paper labels "From George to Mary".
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Wedge shaped piece of oak taken from the hull of the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) prior to the 1927-1931 restoration of the ship. There are traces of grey or white paint on one surface of the object. A portion of a wooden peg remains in the top of the object. The depth ranges from 1 inch to 3 inches, length 8 inches, width 5 1/2 inches. The piece of wood has a small copper plaque affixed to the surface which reads "This material was taken from the original hull of the U.S. Frigate Constitution. Keel laid 1794. Rebuilding 1927." The USS Constitution was originally constructed of wood brought from all over the United States. The frames, or ribs and the outer hull planking was made of white oak primarily sourced from Georgia. White oak from New England formed her backbone or keel. Deck beams were white oak and deck planking of southern pitch pine. The three masts were formed of white pine. (Source for description of materials, the USS Constitution Museum).
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