Brown family photographs, ca. 1861-1900.

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Brown family photographs, ca. 1861-1900.

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Photographs relating to the Brown family of Abington, Mass. Subjects include the Union Army Signal Corps, with which Joseph Willard Brown served during the Civil War; views of the Brown family church and home in Abington; and portraits of other Brown family members. Photographers include A.N. Hardy of Boston, Mass. and other unidentified photographers.

5 photographs in 1 folder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7754423

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Hardy, A. N.,

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Brown, J. Willard (Joseph Willard), 1838 or 1839-

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...

Brown family

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