Friday, September 14, 2007

Great White Fleet visit to Albany Western Australia 1908

Book source:
"Around the World with the Fleet, 1907-1909: A Pictorial Log of the Cruise." (Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1929).

Image source:
Our Photographic Section may have photos of the fleet's visit to Albany.
That branch doesn't have an e-mail reference service.
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg11.htm.

That Still Picture Branch of the National Archives may also have photographs of the Great White Fleet in Albany.

Still Picture Branch (NNSP)
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
301-837-3530
1-866-272-6272
http://www.archives.gov/contact/
inquire@nara.gov

3) manuscript source:
Admiral Charles S. Sperry who commanded the fleet during its visit to Australia may have written about the visit to Albany in his personal papers which are held by the Library of Congress in the Manuscript Division
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/

The description that we have of his papers collection suggests there is little in the collection about the cruise, but it may be worth checking with the Library of Congress.
Sperry, Charles S.
Papers, 1862-1912, 2,300 items
Naval officer and diplomat. General and family correspondence, orders to duty, journals, reports, memoranda, and other papers relating to Sperry's naval career, particularly his activities in the Philippines (1898-1900), and to his role as a U.S. delegate to the Geneva Convention (1906) and the Second Hague Conference (1907). Includes letters from Theodore Roosevelt concerning the world cruise (1908-1909) of the Battle Fleet commanded by Sperry.

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