Annapolis - USNA Museum: Commodore Matthew C. Perry Artifacts

            (5) On April 10, 1809, Matthew C. Perry received this warrant as a midshipman in the United States Navy. His first duty would be on board the schooner Revenge, commanded by his older brother Oliver Hazard Perry.

(6) Commodore Perry’s authority to negotiate for the United States was contained in this letter from President Millard Fillmore.

(7) The merchants of Boston presented this medal to Perry for his diplomacy in the Far East. The portrait on the obverse side was based on the daguerreotype and the bas relief shown here.

(11) Daguerreotype of Commodore Perry taken about 1855, soon after his return to the United States.

(12) This bas relief of Commodore Perry by Horatio Greenough was based on the daguerreotype

The United States Naval Academy Museum, located at Preble Hall within the Academy campus, features two floors of exhibits about the development and role of the U.S. Navy, spread across area of 12,000 square feet with four galleries.  The museum's history dates back to 1845, when it was founded as the Naval School Lyceum. In 1849, President James K. Polk directed the Navy's collection of historic flags be sent to the new Naval School at Annapolis for care and display, establishing one of the museum's oldest collections. The Naval Academy Lyceum of the 19th and early 20th centuries was located in several places around the Naval Academy Yard, before the construction of Preble Hall in 1939.   From 2007–2008, Preble Hall underwent a complete renovation to turn the building into a modern museum, which officially reopened in the summer of 2009.

The United States Naval Academy, the second oldest of the five U.S. service academies, was established in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft to educate midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the United States Navy and United States Marine Core.  Approximately 1,200 "plebes" enter the academy each summer.  About 1,000 midshipmen graduate and commission each year. The 338-acre campus, known as the "Yard," is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn, and is home to  many historic sites, buildings and monuments.

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