Elliot Snow papers, 1790-1942

Container	Contents

BOX 1	Logbook, journal, and notebooks
BOX 1		Logbook of the USF Constellation, 1840
BOX 1		Journal, USS Adams, 1888
BOX 1		Notebooks of Snow’s examinations from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1883-1889
BOX 2	General correspondence
BOX 2		1790-1877
BOX 3		1897-1926, Mar.
BOX 4		1926, Apr.-1927, Aug.
BOX 5		1927, Sept.-1942
BOX 6	Writings
BOX 6		Drafts of an article, “The Algerine Crescent,” 1927
BOX 6		Drafts of an article, “Battery of ‘Old Ironsides,’” 1925
BOX 6		“Benjamin Franklin and the Navy”
BOX 6		Drafts of “Discussion of Vanishing Naval Tradition–the Figurehead,” 1927
BOX 6		Unbound book, Early History of the United States Revenue Marine Service, 1789-1849, by Horatio D. Smith (Baltimore, Press of R. L. Polk Print. Co., 1932)
BOX 6		Drafts of a proposed book, Famous Sea Anniversaries
BOX 6		Drafts of an article, “The Ever-Faithful on ‘Old Ironsides’ (1807),” 1927
BOX 6		Drafts of an article, “How ‘Old Ironsides’ Lost and Gained a Bell,” 1931
BOX 6		Drafts of an article, “Incidents in the Career of Captain John Percival”
BOX 6		Drafts of an article, “Incidents on a Cruise around the World in ‘Old Ironsides’”
BOX 6		Drafts of a preface to the book Life in a Man-of-War by Henry J. Mercier, reprint. (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927)
BOX 6		Drafts of reviews of Life in a Man-of-War, 1927
BOX 6		“Old Ironsides” 1928, July 3
BOX 6		“‘Old Ironsides’ on the Air,” 1927, Apr. 19
BOX 7		Drafts of a book, On the Decks of “Old Ironsides,” 1932
BOX 7		Radio talk, 1928, June 10
BOX 7		Drafts of an article, “Uncle Sam’s Graveyard of Departed Hopes”
BOX 8	Subject file
BOX 8		Blueprints and specifications, entitled as follows:
BOX 8			Special Docking Plan, 1926
BOX 8			Sheer Half-Breadth and Body, 1794
BOX 8			Spar Deck, 1819
BOX 8			Spar and Gun Decks, 1907
BOX 8			Gun Deck, 1926
BOX 8			Battery Plan, 1907
BOX 8			32 PDR Gun and Gun Carriage, 1907
BOX 8			24 PDR Gun and Gun Carriage, 1907
BOX 8			Details of 32 and 24 Guns and Gun Carriage, 1907
BOX 8			Lower Masts and Bowsprit, 1907
BOX 8			Midship Section, 1926
BOX 8			Midship Section Starboard Side, 1926
BOX 8			General Arr’t & Details Cock-pits & Surgeons, 1926
BOX 8			Breast Hook & Stern Knees, 1926
BOX 8			Knees Live or White Oak, 1926
BOX 8			Sketch of Hogging of Hull Structure, 1926
BOX 8			Material and Progress List, 1926
BOX 9		U.S. Patent Office specifications, 1845-1875
BOX 10	Newspaper clippings concerning the USF Constitution, 1834-1926
BOX 11	Printed matter
BOX 11		Magazines containing articles by Snow
BOX 11		Photostatic copy of Jesse E. Dow’s “Sketches from the Log of Old Ironsides,” Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 5, 1839
BOX 11		Benjamin F. Stevens’ A Cruise on the Constitution(New York, 1904)
BOX 11		Magazine containing reviews of Life in a Man-of-War
BOX 12		Photostatic copy of James Fenimore Cooper’s “Old Ironsides,” Putnam’s Monthly, May- June 1853
BOX 12		Articles about the USF Constitution
BOX 12		Catalogs of marine collections, 1927-1938
BOX 13		News media from U.S. ships and bases, 1925-1930
BOX 14		George Jones’ Sketches of Naval Life . . . in a Series of Letters from the Brandywine and Constitution Frigates, by “a civilian” (New Haven, H. Howe, 1829)
BOX 14			(2 vols)
BOX 14		Portfolios
BOX 14			Vols. 1- 2, 1811
BOX 15			Vols. 3- 4, 1813
BOX 16			Vols. 7- 8, 1819
BOX 17		Photostatic copy of Henry J. Mercier’s Life in a Man-of-War by a fore-top-man (Philadelphia, L. R. Bailey, 1841)
BOX 18		Miscellany
BOX 19	Photographs
BOX 19		Model of USF Constitution, by William F. Spicer
BOX 19		Model of USF Constitution, by Karl Vogel
BOX 19		Model of USF Constitution, by Harold Wylie
BOX 19		Stills of the film “Old Ironsides”
BOX 19		Figureheads of USF Constitution
BOX 20	Scrapbooks
BOX 20		“The Battery and Guns and Gunnery of ‘Old Ironsides,’” 1925-1929
BOX 20		“The Sails and Rigging of ‘Old Ironsides,’” 1817-1826
BOX 20		“Yachting and the Coast Guard,” 1925-1928
BOX 21		“Spindrift,” articles and reviews by Snow, 1915-1930
BOX 21		Technical index of bulletins 1-106, 1908-1921
BOX 21		Index of circular letters, 1908-1921
BOX 22	Miscellany
BOX 22		Fox, Josiah
BOX 22			Correspondence, 1795-1817
BOX 22			Receipts, estimates, and description of materials
BOX 23		Smith, Horatio D.
BOX 23			Logbook of the U.S. Revenue Steamer Delaware, 1865
BOX 23			Notebooks concerning the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service
BOX 23			Correspondence, 1831-1891
BOX 23			Examining Board, 1871
BOX 23			List of officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, 1791-1872
BOX 23			Drafts of “Captain Pierre de Landais”
BOX 23			Notes on CF Alliance
BOX 24-28			Scrapbooks compiled by Smith, 1864-1899