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- GLC#
- GLC03804.27-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 28 July 1898
- Author/Creator
- Long, John Davis, 1838-1915
- Title
- to John G. Walker
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 26.4 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Typed letter on Navy Department stationery. Signed by Long as Secretary of the Navy. Written to Walker as a retired Rear Admiral. Orders him to report immediately by letter to the Secretary of War for duty "as a Naval Member of a Board organized for the purpose of recommend, to the Secretary of War, the width of draw or pivot spans in a bridge" across the Niagara River. Docket, signed by Walker, says he reported by letter on 29 July 1898. Address of Walker typed at the bottom: 1202 18th Street, Washington, D.C.
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