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Images of U.P. Levy
No full textThree portraits of Levy, two identical portraits, one signed by Levy, "Captain, USN," showing him as a man in his mid-fifties, sitting and smiling. Another full frontal portrait features Levy in full naval uniform holding a sword in his left hand and a scroll in his right which reads: “Author of the Abolition of Flogging in the Navy of the U.S.” On the wall behind Levy is another portrait of two vessels, underneath which "Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy, 1792-1862" is inscribed. Presented to the Naval Academy by Mrs. Carl von Mayhoff.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
Visiting card of U.P. Levy
No full textTwo undated visiting cards: 1) Handwritten "Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy" 2) Printed card with name Uriah P. Levy, Flag Officer, inscription underneath in French.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
"Memorial of Uriah, P. Levy...to the Congress of the United States"
No full textCopy and original booklet “Memorial of Uriah P. Levy, Late Captain in the Navy, to the Congress of the United States complaining of the Action of the Board of Naval Officers...” as a basis to request that a Court of Inquiry take place to determine why Levy was dismissed as an officer. [Levy makes the following statement on page 9: “In courts of Inquiry, the regulations should have provided that whenever the Board from their…examinations should suspect that any…officer was…of blamable incapacity, due notice should be given to such officer, a day and place assigned to him to hear the charge and the evidence in its support and to defend himself.”]Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
Dedication of the Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy
No full textMaterials relating to the dedication of the Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. These items include a consecration program held on Shabbat, area maps, remarks by Vice Admiral Rodney P. Rempt, a press release, fact sheets, a program issued by Friends of the Jewish Chapel, and programs of the dedication ceremony. Oversized items are located in OS1 Folder 1 of 1.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
"Inventory of the Personal Estate of Uriah P. Levy" and one letter
No full textTwo items, original and copy (9 pages) of an Inventory of the Personal Estate of U.P. Levy, valued at time of death at $131,606.15.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
Newspaper articles re: naming of Commodore Levy chapel at U.S. Naval air station, Norfolk, Virginia
No full textTwo newspaper articles from the U.S. Naval Air Station reporting that the Jewish Chapel shall be named for Uriah P. Levy, and pictures of the wall plaque for the Jewish chapel written in English and Hebrew.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
Copies of letters from Michael Levy to Henry Deering and Dudley Woodbridge
No full textOne letter from Michael Levy, father of U.P. Levy, to Henry Deering refers to mismanagement of merchandise (1787), another letter to Dudley Woodbridge from Levy & Tucker (Michael Levy’s watch and clock shop in Philadelphia) refers to prices for a shipment of merchandise (1788).Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
Letters to Abram Kanof re: U.P. Levy
No full textFour letters: 1) Letter to the Mariners’ Museum requesting information about the Dartmoor Prison in England at the time when the crew of gunboat “Revenge” was incarcerated there on charges of piracy in 1822 (1943). 2) Letter from attorneys to a Lt. Commander Kanof telling him about an interesting Levy reference in ‘A Century at the Bar of the Supreme Court of the U.S.' (1944) 3) Letter from the Navy Department regarding the number of Levy’s courts martial before 1900 (no recorded date) and the Act of 1855, does not include information about officers who were reinstated (1944). 4) Letter from the National Archives to Dr. Kanof stating that records relating to Levy are scattered throughout Navy Department records (1948).Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
Photostat of "Indenture of...Sale" of Monticello to U.P. Levy
No full textPhotostat copy of "Indenture of Sale" of Monticello from "Barclay to Levy," including a description of the acreage, for the amount of $2700.00 dated May 21, 1836.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
W.E. Chandler to Jefferson M. Levy, 2 letters
No full textTwo letters from a William Chandler, husband of John Hale's daughter, to Jefferson Levy, U.P. Levy's nephew, requesting further evidence proving Levy's central role in the abolishment of flogging.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
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