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1. John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren papers, 1794-1889

   10,000 items. 38 containers plus 3 oversize. 15.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States naval officer, inventor, and author. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, reports, logbooks, orders, notebooks, nautical charts and calculations, scrapbooks, and design drawings related to Dahlgren's activities in the development of ordnance for the United States Navy and as chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.

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2. Edwin Bickford Hooper papers, 1842-1986

   4,850 items. 11 containers plus 1 oversize. 5.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer and historian. Correspondence, writings, research notes, speeches, reports, orders, organizational charts, rosters, printed materials, photographs, and other papers primarily relating to Hooper's naval career and to his research in U.S. naval history.

3. William H.P. Blandy papers, 1913-1977

   400 items. 2 containers plus 4 oversize. 3.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer. Correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical material, scrapbooks, and clippings relating chiefly to Blandy's World War II service as head of the United States Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and afterward as director of Operation Crossroads, the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946.

4. Charles O'Neil papers, 1833-1927

   5,500 items. 31 containers plus 1 oversize. 10 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer. Correspondence, diaries, subject files, scrapbooks, financial records, genealogical data, and photographs relating primarily to O'Neil's service as chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in the navy.

5. Washington Irving Chambers papers, 1871-1943

   12,000 items. 48 containers. 12 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer. Correspondence, subject files, logbooks, memoranda, blueprints, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Chambers's service in the navy and with the Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic and the Nicaragua Canal survey expedition of 1884-1885.