Jonathan Dembo Archives

Sep 25, 2024
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Cruise of the Cosmos

Warning: This post contains graphic content that may be upsetting to some people. This post displays the Log Book of the Steamer “Cosmos” Trip from San Francisco, California to Ft....

May 23, 2024
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Midway Island Scenes & Memories, 1903-1918

Pictured are a fragment of a letter Rear Admiral Albert Parker Niblack wrote to his wife on their 15th wedding anniversary, 24 November 1918, and 6 photographs of Midway Island...

May 16, 2024
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Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Lt. Niblack Anticipating the Spanish American War, April 7th, 1898

Theodore Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when he wrote this letter to Lt. Albert Parker Niblack, then serving as Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Rome, Italy....

May 09, 2024
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Captain James Cook Monument, Hawaii, ca. 1904-1905

When he took this picture of the Captain Cook Monument, sometime during 1904-1905, Lt. Commander Albert Parker Niblack was captain of the USS Iroquois (AT-46), a steam tug based at...

Apr 25, 2024
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Hannah and Her Family, 1856

This sketch of an enslaved North Carolina African American family, signed ETF [Miss Elizabeth “Bettie” Taylor Flowers (1838-1916)], was a gift to Joyner Library from John Baxton Flowers, III [Mr....

Nov 28, 2023
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Staff Pick: Robert L. Ghormley Papers

The photograph to the right is one of 13 images in a file documenting the operations of the American – British – Soviet Tripartite Naval Commission, which the World War...