[Rarebooks] Thank You SoldF/S Letter Book Brooklyn Navy Yard
Garry R Austin
austbook at sover.net
Sat Jan 14 15:42:11 EST 2017
Thank You Sold
-- We offer for your consideration the following, net to all & postpaid
@ $195.
From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438
(United States Navy). Letter Book Of The Supply Department, Brooklyn
Navy Yard. Quarto; pp; 498 leaves of tissue, alphabetical index at
front; three quarter black leather and pebbled green cloth; this letter
blank book manufactured by Standard Blank Books, the attractive large
illustrated commercial bookplate states, "the Tokio Letter Copying
Book"; "Containing A Fine Japanese Hand Made Paper, Extra Strong Perfect
Copier"; Leather spine is completely worn to the underlying cloth, edges
bumped and worn, internally very good, clean and tight; letters dated
1918 thru 1936, (mostly 1919-1922); Among the Ships mentioned; U.S.S.
Tacoma, Des Moines, Galveston, Hannibal, Huntington, Leonidas,
Mississippi, Michigan, Mayflower (the Presidential Yacht), North Dakota,
Nevada, Oklahoma, Olympia (Admiral Dewey's Flagship, Battle of Manila
Bay, docked today at the Philadelphia Waterfront), St. Louis, & the San
Francisco; Most letters are of technical content, dealing with replacing
parts, maintenance, etc.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard was not much larger than a few city blocks (219
acres, plus 72 acres of water), but it was one of the most historically
significant sites in America. It was one of the U.S. Navy's major
shipbuilding and repair yards from 1801 to 1966. It produced more than
80 warships and hundreds of smaller vessels. At its height during World
War II, it worked around the clock, employing some 70,000 people. The
yard built the Monitor, the world's first modern warship; the Maine,
whose destruction set off the Spanish-American War; the Arizona, whose
sinking launched America into World War II; and the Missouri, on whose
deck World War II ended. On June 25, 1966, the flag at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard was lowered for the last time and the 165-year-old institution
ceased to exist. Sold to the City of New York for $22.4 million, the
yard became a site for storage of vehicles, some light industry, and a
modest amount of civilian ship repair.
"If you are looking at an image that contains multiple documents with
unusually neat penmanship, you are looking at a letter book. Letter
books are simply copies of original letters bound together in a book and
usually organized chronologically. Making such hand written copies was
the job of a clerk. Among many other qualities, clerks had to have good
penmanship. That's why these letters are so easy to read.
There are numerous letter books in the Papers of the War Department
collections. The letter books of Generals such as Anthony Wayne, for
example, furnish us a picture of his Fallen Timbers campaign-both in
terms of what he sent to the War Department and what he received from
Secretary of War, Henry Knox. The letter books of accountants such as
Joseph Howell and William Simmons have thousands of entries".
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