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Officers of USS 'Colorado'
Creator
Felice BeatoPhotographer · 1832–1909
All works by this person →Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma. Beato's photographic career was
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- 1871
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- bb01abbd-278c-49b7-beeb-97b65fd4d17b
From the Getty Museum record
Officers of the USS Colorado during the United States expedition to Korea in June 1871. Standing left to right: Gunner Thomas H. Fortune, USN; Ensign Charles A. Clark, USN; Captain McLane Tilton, USMC; Lieutenant Commander Henry F. Picking, USN; Master's Mate Charles Wilson, USN; Second Assistant Engineer Henry L. Slosson, USN; Lieutenant Commander Oscar F. Heyerman, USN; Captain George H. Cooper, USN, ship's Commanding Officer; unidentified officer; Lieutenant Commander Silas Casey, USN; unidentified (possibly a civilian); Chief Engineer Alexander Henderson, USN; Lieutenant Bloomfield McIlvaine, USN; Surgeon Henry O. Mayo, USN; Passed Assistant Surgeon Charles J.S. Wells, USN; and Lieutenant George M. Totten, USN. Seated in front, left to right: Lieutenant Hugh Wilson McKee USN; Second Lieutenant William J. McDonald, Jr., USMC; and Lieutenant William W. Mead, USN.; (seated at right) Chaplain John R. Matthews, USN.
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