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- Creator
- Hayden, Levi
- Call number
- MssCol 1364
- Physical description
- .84 linear feet (4 volumes)
- Preferred Citation
- Levi Hayden diaries, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Levi Hayden was a marine engineer from New York City. In these diaries, he describes his service with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee; other military actions in the United States Civil War; his work and travels for the firm of Morris & Cummings, New York; dredging rivers and harbors at New York harbor, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, and elsewhere; and of his travels on the Neva River from St. Petersburg, Russia, to its mouth, with extensive details of his life there. The diary also includes notes from Hayden's travels in England and Europe between 1883 and 1884
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328
Access to materials
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Partially available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-384; Volume 1 (1864-1879) has been microfilmed