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    <title>John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren papers, 1794-1889 (bulk 1826-1870)</title>
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    <namePart>Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1809-1870</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, reports, logbooks, orders, notes, notebooks, nautical calculations and charts, scrapbooks, and design drawings relating to Dahlgren's activities in the development of ordnance for the U.S. Navy and as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.  Includes journals of cruises as midshipman, and logbooks kept during his Civil War service in the South Atlantic.  Correspondents include his son Ulric Dahlgren, Samuel Francis Du Pont, Andrew Hull Foote, Gustavus Fox, and Gideon Welles.</abstract>
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  <note>Naval officer, inventor, and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Dahlgren, Ulric</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1864</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Du Pont, Samuel Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1865</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1806-1863</namePart>
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      <namePart>Fox, Gustavus Vasa</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1821-1883</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Welles, Gideon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1802-1878</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Navy</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy</namePart>
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    <topic>Ordnance and ordnance stores</topic>
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      <namePart>Navy Department.</namePart>
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    <topic>Ordnance</topic>
    <topic>Design and construction</topic>
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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