Research Catalog

Title

Albert Victor Johnson collection [graphic].

Author

Johnson, A. Vic (Albert Victor).

Publication

1910-[1915?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Muller, E.
• Granie, L.
• Brown & Shiffer (Firm)
• H. Sambal & Son (Charlestown, Ma.)
• Clark & Muller (New York, N.Y.)

Description

• 135 items (. 3 lin. ft., 1 box); 9 x 14 cm.
• 126 photographic postcards : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 8 photographic postcards : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 1 photographic print : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

The Albert Victor Johnson Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of his life as a sailor in the United States Navy, some of the daily routines and activities aboard a Navy battleship, and some of the Navy's activities in the Atlantic and Latin America, during the period of 1910 to 1915.

Subjects

• African American sailors
• Warships > Visits to foreign ports > Italy
• United States > Navy > Military life
• Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)
• United States > Navy > Officers
• Sailors > United States
• Shipbuilding > United States
• Winslow, Cameron McRae, 1854-1932
• Military life > 1910-1919
• Arkansas (Battleship)
• Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919
• Battleships
• Moffett, William A (William Adger), 1869-1933
• United States > Navy > Target practice
• Photographic postcards > 1910-1919
• Naval yards & naval stations > United States > 1910-1919
• United States > Navy > Sports
• Smith, Roy Campbell, 1858-1940
• Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920
• Group portraits > 1910-1919
• United States > Navy > African Americans
• Panama Canal (Panama)
• African Americans > Military service > 1910-1919
• Inscriptions > 1910-1919
• Veracruz (Veracruz, Mexico) > History > American occupation, 1914
• Taft, William H (William Howard), 1857-1930
• Canal Zone
• Portrait photographs > 1910-1919
• Johnson, A. Vic (Albert Victor)
• Gelatin silver prints > 1910-1919

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1910-1919.
• Group portraits – 1910-1919.
• Photographic postcards – 1910-1919.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1910-1919.
• Inscriptions – 1910-1919.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs have photographer's or photography studio's name printed on recto; two items have photography studio name printed on verso; one item has photography studio hand stamp.
• Many photographs bear either handwritten and/or typewritten descriptive information on verso; most items are accompanied by notecards with typewritten captions; many images have captions printed on recto; one item has handwritten caption on recto. All items were formerly part of a photo scrapbook.
• Collection contains work by E. Muller, Jr., L. Granie, Brown & Shaffer, Clark & Muller (New York) and H. Sambal & Son (Charlestown, Ma.).

Biography (note)

• Albert Victor Johnson was an African-American sailor who served on the battleship, U.S.S. Arkansas, from about 1912 to 1915.

Call Number

Sc Photo Albert Victor Johnson Collection

OCLC

NYPG99-F351

Author

Johnson, A. Vic (Albert Victor).

Title

Albert Victor Johnson collection [graphic].

Imprint

1910-[1915?]

Biography

Albert Victor Johnson was an African-American sailor who served on the battleship, U.S.S. Arkansas, from about 1912 to 1915. He was serving when the Arkansas took President William H. Taft to Panama in 1912, and when the American Fleet occupied the Mexican port of Veracruz to halt arms shipments to General Victoriano Huerta in 1914.

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Added Author

Muller, E. Photographer

Granie, L. Photographer

Brown & Shiffer (Firm)

H. Sambal & Son (Charlestown, Ma.)

Clark & Muller (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Albert Victor Johnson Collection