American Historical Ephemera and Photography Online

CDV on cardstock mount of the USS Hartford on the water, ca 1860s. Photographer unknown (toning, soiling, edge and corner wear to mount). -- Stereoview on cardstock mount of the USS Hartford, with period manuscript identification on verso, "The US Training Ship Hartford, Stockholm, Sweden." Photographer unknown (toning). -- 10 x 8 in. silver gelatin print of a group of sailors, titled in negative, "The Old Salts, USS Hartford, 1878" (possibly printed later). Photographer unknown (toning, short tear near top right corner). -- 8 x 10 in. print of four sailors casually posed aboard the ship. Ink stamp on verso, "Photograph by the National Archives." Photographer unknown (toning, edge and corner wear including creasing, short tears, residue near lower right corner). -- Together, 4 photographs.

The USS Hartford, launched in 1858, was the first ship of the US Navy named for Hartford, CT. The Hartford embarked to China and other Far Eastern ports, but with the outbreak of the Civil War, she returned home to be fitted for wartime service. Serving as the flagship for Admiral David Farragut, she participated in the Battle of New Orleans, the Battle of Vicksburg, and most notably, the Battle of Mobile Bay, and was recommissioned after the War until 1926. In 1956, allowed to deteriorate and sink at her berth, the Hartford was dismantled.