Name/Title
Burke Everett Bodwell Sr. CollectionEntry/Object ID
A0216Scope and Content
The Burke Everett Bodwell Sr. Collection (U.S.S. Bennington), dated 1896-1957, consists of items collected by seaman Bodwell and his family, which include an original Bennington crew muster roll, photographic albums entitled Scenes in the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands and Scenes Relating to Soldiers and Pacific Squadron 1904, single and group photographs of Burke Everett Bodwell and Bennington crew members, a book entitled U.S. Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, CA, correspondence requesting the city of San Diego to memorialize the date of the Bennington disaster, manuscripts including the Circular Letter No. 3 to the Surviving Bennington Crew and The Third Annual Directory of the Surviving Bennington Crew and period newspapers, The Omaha Daily News and The Evening World-Herald dated July 21, 22, 24 and 31, 1905 detailing the disaster.
Personal items of Burke Everett Bodwell including a naval landsman and apprentice guide, several artifacts including a piece of the Bennington boiler, a Bennington hat band, United Spanish War Veteran 1898-1902 lapel pin and large sheet metal cross and personal papers including U.S.S. Bennington, Station Billet Cards for B.E. Bodwell, Apprentice 2nd class, U.S. Navy discharge papers and pension documents.
Series Levels
I. Records and Logs
II. Photograph Albums, Sub-series Photographs
III. Manuscripts and Books
IV. Correspondence
V. Clippings: Newspapers and Magazines: 1905
Sub-series: 1940-1942
VI. Personal Items
VII. Ephemera
VIII. Objects
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Burke Everett Bodwell Sr. CollectionLexicon
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
USS Bennington, Bodwell, Lindsay, Bodwell, BurkeArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1896 - 1957