*[Perry, Commodore Matthew C.] Manuscript Plan of the Berth Deck of the USS Macedonian, 1852

(Possibly Brooklyn, New York), 1852. Single oblong sheet of translucent paper, 10 1/4 x 36 in. (260 x 914 mm). Manuscript plan of the "Berth Deck" of the USS Macedonian, in black, red, and brown ink, as well as pencil; manuscript notations in ink and pencil; initialed at top; scattered soiling.

In 1852, the USS Macedonian was docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to be converted to a sloop-of-war for an expedition to Japan to open foreign trade. The ship was assigned to Commodore Matthew C. Perry's East India Squadron and put under the command of Captain Joel Abbott. She was one of the American ships to arrive off Uraga, Japan on February 13, 1854, during Perry's second expedition to Japan. The Treaty of Kanagawa, negotiated by Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate, was signed on March 31, 1854, and ended Japan's 220-year-old policy of isolation. Following this, the Macedonian patrolled the north Pacific, from 1854-61, and served with the Home Squadron in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.

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How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[Perry, Commodore Matthew C.] Manuscript Plan of the Berth Deck of the USS* Macedonian, 1852

How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

*[Perry, Commodore Matthew C.] Manuscript Plan of the Berth Deck of the USS Macedonian, 1852

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[Perry, Commodore Matthew C.] Manuscript Plan of the Berth Deck of the USS* Macedonian, 1852