Beschreibung:

CDV album containing 50 CDVs (incl. 3 tintypes) of US Navy officers and sailors. Album is constructed of red and black leather, with a raised shield and brass anchor on the cover. Includes: 2 different views of Adm. David G. Farragut (1801-1870); Rear Adm. Charles Henry Davis (1807-1877); Rear Adm. John A. Dahlgren (1809-1870); Rear Adm. Louis M. Goldsborough (1805-1877); Rear Adm. Silas Stringham (1798-1876); Commodore Foote (1806-1863); Lt. Samuel R. Knox (1828-1880); 3 views of future Rear Adm. James Dexter Adams (1848-1922) as a teenager during the Civil War and as a master in the 1870s; a Mathew Brady carte of a group of 12 Italian naval officers; and many more officers and tars from the Civil War era. Condition: Album pages are bound together but separated from the spine; exterior with shelf wear limited to the spine. Most CDVs very good, with light soiling and/or bumped corners. A few are trimmed.