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Colvocoresses Family, 1873

 File — Multiple Containers

Scope and Contents

Folder includes photos of Harold Colvocoresses in uniform, USMC. Photos of Rear Admiral George P. Colvocoresses in U.S. Navy uniform dated 1896 and 1911. Also a photo of Admiral George P. Colvocoresses holding a cat and his grandson - Harold, Jr. holding a small drum. A photo dated Sept. 30, 1923 identifying Rear Admiral Colvocoresses, Capt. Harold Colvocoresses and Gra. (Grandmother) Colvocoresses Jones. Other photos include George Jones (husband) and Eva Jones, Mrs. George M. Colvocoresses - Marian Hagen(?)of Numia, New Caledonia, (her mother was Australian, her father German). (George was a mining engineer in New Caledonia). Other photos of Marie Colvocoresses, Eva F. Colvocoresses dated 1873, a 7" x 3½" photo depicting a ceremony honoring G. P. Colvocoresses returning from the Spanish War dated 1898, Harry Lee (one in uniform) and Josephine Colvocoresses dated 1942.

2 oversize photographs of J. Deming Perkins addressing Admiral Colvocoresses of the occasion of th epresentation of a sword commemorative of the participation of Admiral Colvocoresses in the victory of Manila Bay, May 1898, "Colvocoresses Day," November 10, 1899.

Dates

  • created: 1873

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 45 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Litchfield Historical Society Repository

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