Boston Navy Yard War Service awarded to Lieutenant Adolph A. Gathemann, U.S.N.; Text from image: Certificate of Registry, Register No. 27, Merit Roll, Boston Navy Yard, War Service, The name of Lieut. Adolph A. Gathemann, U.S.N. is hearby placed on...
Tintype of Robert Smalls, who along with sixteen other slaves sailed the Confederate steamer "Planter" out of Charleston Harbor and into the hands of the U.S. Navy's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 13 May 1862. Smalls and his accomplices...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Lieut. F. W. Wead, US navy aviator who with A. W. Gorton, another US navy aviator will compete for the Schneider Cup in the Great International Air Race to be held over England next month. Officials at the...
Military officers; Navies; Blockades; Armored vessels
Career Navy officer Percival Drayton served as a junior commander in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and later as Fleet Captain of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under Rear-Admiral David G....
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Government contracts; Ordnance industry;
Company inquires into status of Navy Department gunpowder orders after news of peace with Great Britain and offers to supply the Navy with gunpowder for its declaration of war against the Dey of Algiers.
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Mason reports that he has met with the Navy commissioners and has received assurances that the du Pont Company will hace continued work remanufacturing gunpowder for the Navy.
Correspondence; Government contracts; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
Cornell encloses certificates and testimonies from U.S. Navy personnel regarding recent U.S. government tests of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and Decature & Atterberry gunpowder. The tests were carried out at the Long Island Navy Yard.
Correspondence; Government contracts; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
Mason reports on his discussions with Commodore John Rogers of the U.S. Navy Board regarding the potential purchase by the du Pont Company of under proof Navy powder.
Kemble requests an additional powder shipment and reports on how he plans to get powder samples to Captain John Cassin of the U.S. Navy. He asks what decision the DuPont Company came to regarding eprouvettes with for the U.S. Navy.
Text from back of image: "The U.S. Navy is making plans to carry on the work of Rear Admiral Robert Peary, U.S. Navy, discoverer of the North Pole, with an air expedition to the North Pole this coming summer. The famous discoverer was one of the...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows wrecked plane in which two fliers were drowned. Lieut R.N. Farrar of Washington and Stephen F. Sullivan of Chicago were drowned when a giant navy seaplane crashed about 400 feet into the Delaware River. The men...
