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American Philosophical Society
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Bache, Albert D.
Papers, 1862-1869
The first diary was kept during the American Civil War, when Bache was captain's clerk on board USS Hartford; the second and third were kept while Bache was an assistant paymaster on board USS Iroquois, of the Asiatic Squadron.
3 volumes
Bache Family
Papers, 1770-1923
Correspondence of members of the family of Richard and Sarah Franklin Bache, with some references to Benjamin Franklin and his estate. There is also a family genealogy.
50 items
Bainbridge, William
Papers, 1811-1830
3 items
Barron, James
Papers, 1823-1825
3 items
Barry, John
Papers, 1777-1783
21 items
Byrd, Richard E.
Papers, 1936-1950
3 items
Cassin, Charles L.
Papers, 1745-1878
Cassin was a U.S. Navy physician and grandson of Commodore Stephen Cassin, USN. The C.L. Cassin correspondence, including family letters, is primarily routine navy orders and letters of recommendation. There are several notebooks and diaries: notes from Pennsylvania Hospital clinical lectures, 1867-1869 (2 vols.); diaries, 1865-1875 (7 vols.); a volume of poetry; and general study notes. There is also early material on the Cassin family.
70 items and 11 volumes
Dale, Richard
Papers, 1780-1845
The collection contains letters of Commodore Dale to the Secretary of the Navy, William Bainbridge, Samuel Barron, William Eaton, David Humphreys, Rufus King, British, Algerian, and Tripolitanian officials, 1801-1802; also a miscellaneous collection of letters of Charles Biddle, James Biddle, Mahlon Dickerson, John Paul Jones, John Y. Mason, Oliver H. Perry, Edward Preble, Benjamin Stoddert, Thomas Truxtun, and others, 1780-1845; and Dale's journal on a voyage to Canton, 1787-1788.
1 volume
DuPont, Samuel F.
Papers, 1861
1 item
Humphreys, Joshua
Papers, 1789-1837
10 items
Humphreys, Samuel
Papers, 1822-1853
8 items
Jones, John Paul
Papers, 1777-1785
287 items
Kane, Elisha K.
Papers, 1830-1860
This collection contains many types of material: correspondence; letterbook; sketches of arctic and other scenes (there are many sketches scattered throughout the numerous bound volumes); notebooks of polar exploration; medical notebooks; journals of trips to North Carolina, Philippines, Africa, Asia Minor, Egypt, Mexico; logbooks; lectures; lecture notebooks on medicine, geology, mineralogy, geometry, etc.; medical notebook; and a journal kept while a resident physician at Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia.
7 feet
Lenthall, John
Papers, 1837-1853
3 items
Maury, Matthew F.
Papers, 1843-1860
23 items
Melville, George W.
Papers, 1897-1898
7 items
Nautilus, USS
Collection, 1931
The Nautilus Collection is comprised of approximately 60 photographs, plus assorted newspaper clippings, postcards, and a few other miscellaneous items. The photographs document the voyage of USS Nautilus from Camden, New Jersey, to the Brooklyn Naval Yard, and New London, Connecticut, across the Atlantic to the Arctic regions. The collection includes formal and informal photographs of the submarine, its interior, and ice floes, along with portraits of many of the ship's officers.
0.25 feet
Peary, Robert E.
Papers, 1886-1897
6 items
Perry, Oliver H.
Papers, 1813
3 items
Rodgers, John
Papers, 1820
1 item
Smyth, William H.
Papers, 1827-1864
This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, almost all written to Smyth by prominent scientists. The topics discussed are many, including astronomy, microscopes, nautical almanacs, and submarine excursions. The seventeen letters to Herschel form the largest group. Also to be found are such interesting single letters as that from Thomas Graves, reporting what HMS Beagle (Charles Darwin's voyage) was encountering in South American waters.
86 items
Truxton, Thomas
Papers, 1785-1797
2 items
U.S. Naval Academy
Records, 1856-1859
5 items
U.S. Naval Lyceum
Records, 1838
1 item
U.S. Naval Observatory
Records, 1861-1899
11 items
U.S. Naval War Records Office
Records, 1898
1 item
U.S. Navy
Records, 1840-1948
12 items
Whipple, Abraham
Papers, 1778-1786
8 items
Wilkes, Charles
Papers, 1838-1850
15 items
Winlock, Joseph
Papers, 1857-1875
During the period of this letterbook, Winlock was the Superintendent of the American Ephermeris and Natural Almanac, Head of the Department of Mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, as well as being a professor of astronomy at Harvard. There is much in his letters about his various posts, conflicts and personalities, and the politics of science. There are also many references and comments about scientific technology of the day, and of such people as Matthew F. Maury. There are numerous letters to Alexander D. Bache, James Henry Coffin, Charles Henry Davis, and William H. Willcox.
1 volume
