Campaigns & battles; Naval warfare; Naval prints; Government vessels; Military officers; Sheet music covers; Music
Sheet music commemorating the U.S. Navy's successful attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard at Port Royal, South Carolina, 7 November 1861. This attack was carried out by the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under the command of Commodore Samuel...
1847 Illustration from a handbook of John H. Reed & Co., Iron Merchants and Agents for Bay State Iron Co. (G.W. Whitehead said this furnace plant was at north side of Port Henry, and not south where present furnace plant is located) Rebuilt 1871
Sophie expressing gratefulness for making it through Port Royal and notes the Admiral's skill in handling the fleet. Sophie also says she is "overwhelmed" with notes of congratulations
Correspondence from wife to husband regarding every day life while he is away at war. Sophie mentions Captain Davis, Henry Winter Davis, Mrs. Welsh, General Anderson, and Clementina and Harriet Smith. Parts of the letter are written in French....
Correspondence from wife to husband regarding every day life, which she says she condenses on account of bad eyesight. She discusses the visit of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard and others, and comments on the letters he has sent her. Sophia laments over not...
Caption on reverse: "Picture taken on board the U.S.S. Wabash, in the harbor of Port Royal, South Carolina in 1862, and presented by J. C. Vail of Morristown, N.J. to Senator H. A. du Pont of Delaware in memory of Rear-Admiral S. F. Du Pont, April...
Unloading scrap at Port Henry, New York. Steam locomotive crane equiped with a electromagnet unloading a barge at the docks of the Port Henry blast furnaces
Correspondence regarding portraits of Sophie DuPont and Xanthus Smith's sketches of Port Royal. Smith discusses the execution of lithographs of the Port Royal drawings.
Copy of painting of the American Eagle, which is the ship that brought members of the du Pont family to America in 1800. Typed caption with image: "COPY - December 21, 1946. From records of the former Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation,...
Photos identified as follows: Top left - "Ilex Opaca-American Holly. J. S. Whitmere, Port Washington, N.Y." Top right - "large Holly Tree, Vineland, New Jersey. Branford Lewis, Lewis & Valentine Letter, Dec. 20, 1933." Bottom right - Large...
Text from image: "Steel SternWheel Boat "Apure" for Capt. Lee of the General Steamship Company of Brazil in 1883. Length 150'-0 Beam 30'-0" Depth 6'-0". Engs. 20"x72" - High Pressure Condensing - Nos. 692 & 693; Harbor of Port of Spain, Trinidad;...
