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Sea Captain Stephen R Babbidge Spain Maine Oregon Signed 1860s CDV Photo cute Some of these names wereOriginal CDV photo of Captain Stephen R. Babbidge (1831 1896), signed in ink, "S. R. Babbidge or what is left of him". Photographed in Cadiz, Spain at Fotografia Blanco. Dimensions are 4" x 2. 5". Babbige was a longtime sea captain and resident of Rockland, Maine; in the 1880s he became captain of the US steamer General Wright, working on improvement in Yaquina Bay, Oregon. He died in Oregon in 1896.