United States Army Corps of Engineersphotographs of Spanish fortifications around Havana, Cuba, ca. 1899-1900.

Harvard college library

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The Harvard College Library used ledgers to record the loans of books from the library's collection during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The presence of what appear to be call-slips from 1823 to 1826 and the lack of ledgers for this period is unaccounted for in the literature cited in the bibliography. Late in the nineteenth century, librarians recognized that the ledger system could not provide the flexibility needed to control large collections. At the Harvard College L...

Kiernan

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...

Black, William Murray, 1855-1933

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William Murray Black (b. Dec. 8, 1855, Lancaster, Pennsylvania-d. Sept. 24, 1933), major general in the U.S. Army, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1877 and was a highly-trained engineer long engaged on works of river and harbor improvement and practical military engineering. He was chief of engineering work in Puerto Rico and Cuba and was the senior member of the board charged with raising the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. He was also a member of the National Defense Council and the Na...

Moore, Charles, 1855-1933

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