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William Shepherd Benson papers, circa 1791-1952

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BOX 1-30 General Correspondence, 1874-1952
Letters sent and received.
Arranged in two groups, one chronologically, 1874-1952; the other, alphabetically, 1920-1928.
BOX 1 Chronological file
BOX 1 1874-1915
BOX 2 1916-1917, Feb.
BOX 3 1917
BOX 3 Mar.-May
BOX 4 June-Aug.
BOX 5 Sept.-Dec.
BOX 6 1918
BOX 6 Jan.-Mar.
BOX 7 Apr.-May
BOX 8 June-July
BOX 9 Aug.-Sept.
BOX 10 Oct.-Dec.
BOX 11 1919
BOX 11 Jan.-May
BOX 12 June-Aug.
BOX 13 1919, Sept.-1922
BOX 14 1923-1929
BOX 14A 1930-1952, undated
BOX 15 Alphabetical file, 1920-1928
BOX 15 A-Book
BOX 16 Boone-Carden
BOX 17 Cardinal Gibbons Institute
BOX 18 Carm-Cut
BOX 19 D
BOX 20 E-Gat
BOX 21 Gav-Hind
BOX 22 Hinds-I
BOX 23 Jack-Liv
BOX 24 Lock-McCor
BOX 25 McCor-O'Hara
BOX 26 O'Hern Retreats
BOX 27 Rev-Sher
BOX 28 Shib-Tea
BOX 29 Teal-Watt
BOX 30 Webs-Z
BOX 30 Alphabetical index by name or subject to the original arrangement of Benson's correspondence and other papers as chief of naval operations, 1916-1919
BOX 31-43 Subject File, 1917-1926
Letters, reports, memoranda, dispatches, telegrams, notes, printed matter, newspaper clippings, maps, charts, and miscellaneous related material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 31 Armistice, Allied Naval Council, Peace Conference, 1918-1919
BOX 31 Admiralty reports
BOX 31 Adriatic operations
BOX 31 Actions of Italians
BOX 31 Austria-Hungary armistice
BOX 31 Austrian field party
BOX 31 Austrian ships
BOX 31 Austrian merchant ships
BOX 31 Blockade
BOX 32 Italian-French relations
BOX 32 Jugo-Slavs
BOX 32 Naval conditions, surrender of Austrian ships
BOX 32 Personnel in Adriatic
BOX 32 Vessels in Adriatic
BOX 32 Yugoslavia See same container, Jugo-Slavs
BOX 32 General
BOX 33 General
BOX 34 General
BOX 34 Aeronautical Commission
BOX 34 Allied Naval Council
BOX 35 Arkansas (battleship)
BOX 35 Disposition of enemy warships
BOX 35 German armistice
BOX 35 German cables
BOX 35 German field party
BOX 35 German merchant ships
BOX 36 German merchant ships
BOX 36 German passenger ships
BOX 36 League of Nations
BOX 36 Miscellaneous papers
BOX 37-38 Miscellaneous papers
BOX 39 Miscellaneous papers
BOX 39 Naval armaments
BOX 39 Naval conditions with Germany
BOX 40 Naval conditions with Germany
BOX 40 Naval terms of peace
BOX 41 Naval terms of peace
BOX 41 Political situation
BOX 41 Transportation of Woodrow Wilson
BOX 42 Naval Conference of 1917 (House mission)
BOX 42 Naval matters, miscellaneous
BOX 42 1917-1926
BOX 43 1917-1926
BOX 44 Speeches, 1917-1930
Handwritten, typewritten, and near-print copies of speeches.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 44 1917-1930, undated
BOX 45-55 Miscellany, circa 1791-1943
Early family papers, financial papers, memoranda, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, orders and appointments, photographs, printed matter, material concerning the Army and Navy Country Club, transcripts of congressional hearings on the Navy Department, bound volume of letters and miscellaneous items from a testimonial dinner in honor of Benson, scrapbooks, and broadsides.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 45 Army and Navy Country Club, 1925-1928
BOX 45 Catholic matter, 1919-1920, undated See also Oversize
BOX 45 Family papers, circa 1791-1839, undated
BOX 45 Financial
BOX 45 General and biographical material, 1879, undated See also Oversize
BOX 45 Duffy-Daniels correspondence, 1932-1933
BOX 46 Memoranda and miscellaneous writings
BOX 46 Newspaper clippings, 1909-1930
BOX 46 Orders and appointments, 1847-1931, undated
BOX 46 Photographs
BOX 46 Printed matter
BOX 47 Printed matter
BOX 48 Testimonial dinners, 1925
BOX 49 Investigation of the Navy Department, transcripts of hearings, 1920
(6 vols.)
BOX 50 (4 vols.)
BOX 51-55 Scrapbooks, 1900-1943 See Oversize
(5 vols)
BOX OV 1-OV 6 Oversize, 1879-1943
Certificates, pamphlets, and scrapbooks.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Miscellany
BOX OV 1 Catholic matter, 1919-1920 (Container 45)
BOX OV 1 General and biographical material, 1879 (Container 45)
BOX OV 2-OV 6 Scrapbooks, 1900-1943 (Containers 51-55)

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