Oldest U.S. Navy officer poses for bust by noted Russian sculptor. Rear Admiral George Collier Remey, retired, and oldest living officer of the United States Navy, having his likeness sculptured by Moses Dykaar, noted Russian sculptor who has made busts of many famous Americans. Admiral Remey is 87 years old and was retired from the Navy in 1903. He participated in the siege of Yorktown and also commanded a division of boats in the night attack on Fort Sumter, Sept. 8, 1863. He was in many other important naval engagements during the Civil War
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A group of three men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.
On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line.
Copyright by Harris and Ewing.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch seven.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)