News
Events
Blogs
David McClure correspondence
Philadelphian David McClure, U.S.N., has been credited with being the first to suggest to President Martin Van Buren the establishment of a naval academy. This academy, the Naval Asylum on Gray's Ferry Road, was the precuror to the United States Naval School in Anapolis. This collection consi...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Collection: | David McClure Correspondence |
| Collection Number: | 3389 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects and Genres: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| LEADER | 01494ntc a2200193 u 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | ead-3389 | ||
| 008 | 120524i xx eng d | ||
| 040 | |e dacs | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 099 | |a 3389 | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a McClure, David |e creator | |
| 245 | 1 | |a David McClure correspondence |f 1826-1959 | |
| 300 | |a 0.25 Linear feet |f 0.25 linear feet, 1 box | ||
| 520 | |a Philadelphian David McClure, U.S.N., has been credited with being the first to suggest to President Martin Van Buren the establishment of a naval academy. This academy, the Naval Asylum on Gray's Ferry Road, was the precuror to the United States Naval School in Anapolis. This collection consists of correspondence between McClure and another professor as well as letters from his students. There is also a reprint of an 1882 article in the Inquirer which chronicles McClure and the original naval school. There is also a list of midshipman who passed at the Naval Asylum in 1840 and their later promotions. Seemingly unrelated is a photograph and cover letter from 1959 regarding a plaque from the Chestnut Street Bridge. | ||
| 541 | 1 | |a Notes indicates depositor as Agnes McClure Williams, 913 Chetwynd, Rosemont, PA. Indefinite deposit for bicentennial use; c. 1976 acquired | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Naval Asylum--Philadelphia |2 Local sources | |
| 650 | 7 | |a United States Naval Academy |2 Local sources | |
| 650 | 7 | |a United States--Military--Naval History |2 Local sources | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b David McClure Correspondence |l 3389 | ||