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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Aaron Ward Weaver letterpress books, 1861-1884 (bulk 1882-1884)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Weaver, Aaron Ward</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1832-1919</namePart>
    <role>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>0.2</extent>
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  <abstract>Letterpress books kept by Weaver while commanding the U.S.S. Brooklyn during its service, 1882-1884, with the U.S. Navy South Atlantic Squadron.  Includes correspondence relating to maintenance, operations, stores, and ports of call along the eastern coast of South America and the southwestern and southern coasts of Africa.  Also includes a lithograph of the ship published in 1861.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Naval officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008142">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008142</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Brooklyn (Ship)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy.</namePart>
      <namePart>South Atlantic Squadron.</namePart>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ship's papers</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Africa</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South America</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Naval officers</occupation>
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