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Brigade of United States Sailors

Object Details

  • Date

    1885, published 1886

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Albumen silver print

  • Contributors

    Published by U. S. Instantaneous Photographic Company

  • Object Format

    Album

  • Dimensions

    Image: 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 in.
    Mount: 14 1/4 x 16 15/16 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    l.r. in image: COPYRIGHT 1886 BY THE U.S. INST. PHOTO CO, \ 161

    Mount:

    l.c. [printed]: BRIGADE OF UNITED STATES SAILORS, \ Formed by the Sailors taken from the various Men-of-War in the Harbor of New York, making a force Three Thousand strong. \ The Sailors in this picture carried small guns, and made a stirring scene, and enabled our citizens for the first time to understand that our Naval Com- \ manders may land United States Sailors and Marines, and fight pitched battles as sucessfully as Regular Army soldiers do, when necessity requires and for- \ eign countries. The United States Sailors were under the command of H.B. Robeson, Commander, U.S.N. \ 161

  • Collection Name

    Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

  • Accession Number

    P1976.20.16.54

  • Copyright

    Public domain

This artwork is part of Seven Mile Funeral Cortege of General Grant in New York, August 8, 1885

Additional details

Location: Off view
Part of: Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection

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