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United States. Navy.

 Organization

Found in 66 Collections and/or records:

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William A. H. Allen Papers

Identifier: MSS10538
Abstract

Naval officer and engineer. Journals with photographs, sketches, and illustrations describing Allen's activities while serving in the United States Navy during the Civil War, subsequently on ships in the Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, and at stations on the east and west coasts of the United States and Europe.

Dates 1863-1884
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Bernard L. Austin Papers

Identifier: MSS61725
Abstract

Naval officer and educator. Correspondence, speeches and writings, and subject files documenting Austin's naval career.

Dates 1916-1979; Majority of material found within ( 1937-1968)
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Josiah Bartlett family papers

Identifier: MSS11932
Abstract Statesmen and physicians. Correspondence, diaries, diplomas, legal and financial records, notebooks, account books, speeches, genealogical material, printed matter, and newspaper clippings documenting the Bartlett family's professional and political activity in New England in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Topics include New England's sentiment towards the War of 1812 as well as American political life before and during the Civil War and post Civil War business...
Dates 1710-1931; Majority of material found within ( 1800-1890)
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William Shepherd Benson Papers

Identifier: MSS12443
Abstract

Naval officer and public official. Correspondence, memoranda, dispatches, speeches, reports, maps, naval appointments, family papers, photographs, and printed materials relating primarily to Benson’s naval career, including service as chief of naval operations during World War I.

Dates circa 1791-1952; Majority of material found within ( 1915-1928)
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Albert J. Beveridge Papers

Identifier: MSS12591
Abstract United States senator from Indiana, lawyer, historian, and biographer. Correspondence, diary notes, addresses, drafts of writings, research material, records of interviews, printed matter, photographs, and miscellaneous material documenting Beveridge's career from his early law practice in Indiana to his career in the Senate, espousal of the Progressive Party, experience as a war correspondent in Europe, and his later work as historian and biographer. Includes source material used in writing...
Dates 1788-1943; Majority of material found within 1886-1927
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Victor F. Blakeslee and Irina Skariätina Papers

Identifier: MSS48314
Abstract

Author and naval officer (Victor F. Blakeslee). Author (Irina Skariätina). Holograph and typewritten manuscripts of novels, short stories, and plays about the Russian revolution, the military, and other topics by Blakeslee and his wife, Irina Skariätina, the former Countess Wladimirovna Keller.

Dates 1930-1944
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Claude Charles Bloch Papers

Identifier: MSS12419
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, printed matter, and other material relating to Claude Charles Bloch’s naval career before and during World War II, including his command at Pearl Harbor.

Dates 1926-1945; Majority of material found within 1937-1941
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Mark L. Bristol Papers

Identifier: MSS13854
Abstract

Naval officer and diplomat. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, reports, memoranda, official dispatches, appointment sheets, press releases, and scrapbooks pertaining mainly to Bristol's naval career.

Dates 1882-1939; Majority of material found within ( 1919-1939)
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Wallace Carroll Papers

Identifier: MSS61931
Abstract

Journalist and psychological warfare strategist. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and propaganda leaflets documenting primarily Carroll's work for the United States Office of War Information and the Psychological Strategy Board.

Dates 1941-1989; Majority of material found within ( 1941-1953)
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Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts

Identifier: MSS84367
Abstract

Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

Dates 1656-1995; Majority of material found within 1700-1876
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David Conner Papers

Identifier: MSS16618
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, reports, invoices, ships returns, extracts from ships logs, and other official naval papers primarily pertaining to Conner's service as commander of U.S. naval forces in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Dates 1817-1847; Majority of material found within ( 1844-1847)
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Edward S. Crocker and Lispenard Seabury Crocker Papers

Identifier: MSS86263
Abstract

Foreign service officer and his wife. Correspondence, films in digital format, photographs, memoranda from Tokyo Embassy prior to bombing of Pearl Harbor as well as a diary kept after the bombing recording daily activities while detained by Japan inside the embassy, and other papers related to postings, 1924-1941, in El Salvador, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Sweden, and family matters in New England and New York.

Dates 1892-2003; Majority of material found within 1923-1941
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William J. Crowe Papers

Identifier: MSS85313
Abstract

Naval officer and diplomat. Correspondence, memoranda, biographical material, clippings, memorabilia, naval records, orders for duty, political campaign files, press releases, photographs, printed matter, scheduling notebooks, reports, research material, speeches and writings, and subject files relating chiefly to Crowe's naval career, service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and tenure as ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Dates 1932-2003; Majority of material found within 1971-2003
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Leonard F. Cushing Papers

Identifier: MSS52852
Abstract

Naval architect. Correspondence, blueprints, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the restoration of the Constitution (frigate) and the Constellation (frigate).

Dates 1794-1959; Majority of material found within ( 1926-1954)
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Benjamin S. Custer Papers

Identifier: MSS86171
Abstract

United States Navy officer and air pilot. Correspondence, military records, photographs, scrapbooks, writings, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Custer's naval career after 1922, naval aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders during World War II, and the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corp at Princeton University during the 1950s.

Dates 1912-2000; Majority of material found within 1920-1958
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Morton L. Deyo World War II map collection.

Identifier: G3201.S7 coll .D4 Deyo
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The collection consists of maps related to Morton L. Deyo's role as a naval task force commander during World War II. Six of the maps depict amphibious landing intelligence in southern France. Two maps show operations in the Pacific.

Dates 1944-1945
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Lucius C. Dunn Papers

Identifier: MSS81342
Abstract

Naval officer and author. Correspondence, memoranda, articles, lectures, short stories, unpublished journal and memoirs, research notes, muscial compositions, official orders, reports, schedules, clippings, printed material, scrapbooks, prints, slides, photographs, and other papers pertaining mainly to Dunn's career in the United States Navy and his writings and interests in naval history.

Dates 1902-1957; Majority of material found within ( 1918-1934)
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George C. Dyer Papers

Identifier: MSS79426
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Correspondence, memoranda, diary, speeches and lectures, research files, reports, biographical material, photographs, and printed matter relating to Dyer's naval career and to his publications, primarily his biographies of navy admirals during the World War II era.

Dates 1898-1988; Majority of material found within ( 1935-1959)
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John Ericsson Papers

Identifier: MSS19877
Abstract

Engineer and inventor. Correspondence, writings, design specifications, articles, memoranda, technical notes, financial and legal papers, drawings, printed matter, and miscellany relating primarily to Ericsson's activities in marine engineering, especially his work on screw propellers and his design of the steamship Princeton and the ironclad Monitor. Includes correspondence of Ericsson's biographer, William C. Church.

Dates 1821-1890; Majority of material found within ( 1842-1886)
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Fox Movietone newsreel collection - World War II paper records

Identifier: MBRSMI007001
Abstract Cameramen’s dope sheets (detailed notes of stories filmed), continuity sheets (synopses of newsreels distributed to theaters), and turnovers (one sentence descriptions of each story filmed) from this major pioneer in the newsreel industry. Collection also contains other paper materials including telegrams, speeches, photographs, programs, and memoranda that provide details of the newsreels created by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Although the entire Fox Movietone newsreel...
Dates 1922-1946; Majority of material found within ( 1941-1946)
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Julius Augustus Furer Papers

Identifier: MSS53892
Abstract

Naval officer. Diary, correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings, and other papers relating to Furer's naval career.

Dates 1910-1962; Majority of material found within 1915-1961
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William Rea Furlong Papers

Identifier: MSS78539
Abstract

Author and United States Navy rear admiral. Correspondence, memoranda, ship diaries, lecture and research notes, drafts of speeches and writings, reports, rosters, biographical materials, photographs, and other papers relating mainly to Furlong's service in the United States Navy.

Dates 1892-1985; Majority of material found within 1930-1945
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Albert Gleaves Papers

Identifier: MSS50104
Abstract

Naval officer and historian. Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, articles, books, scrapbooks, reports of the Asiatic Fleet, notebooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, biographical material, poetry, printed matter, and other papers relating to Gleaves's naval career and his writings.

Dates 1803-1946; Majority of material found within ( 1877-1937)
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Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Papers

Identifier: MSS23044
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, military records, financial papers, printed material, illustrations, and other papers concerning Goldsborough's career in the United States Navy.

Dates 1797-1874
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Samuel L. Gravely Jr. Papers

Identifier: MSS86442
Abstract

Commander, captain, rear admiral, and vice admiral. Speeches and writings, newspaper and magazine clippings relating mostly to Gravely's career, personal and professional correspondence, awards and certificates, professional and personal event files, a file related to his wife, Alma C. Gravely, miscellany, photographs, and a scrapbook related to his time as commandant of the Eleventh Naval District.

Dates 1940-2007; Majority of material found within 1961-1999