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BOX 1-2 Logbooks, Journals, and Notebooks, 1854-1885
Accounts, logs, journals, and a variety of titled notebooks. Includes journals from the Darien Exploring Expedition.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 1 Logbook, USS Independence, 1854, Sept.-1856, May
BOX 1 Journals
BOX 1 1870, Feb.-June, USS Hubbard
BOX 1 1870, Feb.-1873, Apr.
BOX 1 1878, USS Enterprise
BOX 1 1878
BOX 2 General order book, Asiatic Station, 1885
BOX 2 Notebooks
BOX 2 Electricity
BOX 2 Explosives
BOX 2 Torpedos
BOX 2 Watch, quarter, and station bill book
BOX 3-4 Letterbooks and Letterpress Books, 1867-1880
Copies of letters sent by Selfridge as commander of different ships and ventures. Includes letterbooks for the Darien Exploring Expedition.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 3 Letterbooks
BOX 3 1867, June-1869, Oct., USS Macedonian, 1867; and 1868, Oct.-1870, June, USS Nipsic
BOX 4 1870, Dec.-1871, June
BOX 4 1871, June-1872, Nov.
BOX 4 Letterpress book, 1875, Sept.-1877, Apr.
BOX 4 Letterbooks, USS Enterprise
BOX 4 1877, Mar.-1879, Jan.
BOX 4 1879, Jan.-May
BOX 4 1879, June-1880, Jan.
BOX 4 Correspondence, 1864-1919
Letters received and a few drafts of letters sent.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 4 1864-1919
BOX 5-7 Subject File, 1852-1889
Bills and receipts, correspondence, drawings, maps, miscellaneous material, newspaper clippings, printed matter, reports, scrapbooks, and statistics concerning the Amazon River Survey, Selfridge’s court-martial trial, and the Darien Exploring Expedition.
Arranged alphabetically by topic and therein by type of material.
BOX 5 Amazon River survey, 1875-1878
BOX 5 Court-martial, 1887-1889
BOX 6 Darien Exploring Expedition, 1869-1874, undated
BOX 6 Bills and receipts
BOX 6 Correspondence
BOX 6 Drawings
BOX 6 Maps
BOX 6 Miscellany
BOX 6 Newspaper clippings
BOX 6 Printed matter
BOX 7 Reports
BOX 7 Scrapbooks
BOX 7 Statistics, charts, and tables
BOX 8 Miscellany, 1866-1926
Remarks, reports, photographs, and notes and sketches.
Arranged by topic.
BOX 8 Remarks, reports, accounts, and other miscellaneous documents, 1866-1926
BOX 8 Copies of naval examinations, 1902
BOX 8 Photographs, mostly
BOX 8 Notes and sketches

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