Details

Subject(s)

• Koszta, Martin, b. 1819 [Browse]
• St. Louis (Sloop of war). [Browse]
• United States. Navy [Browse]
• Greece [Browse]
• Istanbul (Turkey). [Browse]
• Izmir (Turkey). [Browse]
• Mediterranean Coast (Greece). [Browse]
• Mediterranean Coast (Turkey). [Browse]
• Turkey [Browse]
• United States [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Diaries—19th century [Browse]
• Letters—19th century [Browse]
• Manuscript maps—19th century [Browse]
• Orders (military records)—19th century [Browse]
• Watercolors (paintings)—19th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1852-1957. 1852-1885.

Restrictions note

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Summary note

Consists of selected papers of Moses A. Lane, a nineteenth-century career serviceman in the U.S. Navy, serving most of his time as a gunner. Much of the material relates to a tour (1852-1855) in the Mediterranean aboard the sloop of war St. Louis.