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Subject Source: Itoamc

Found in 149 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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Luis Aury Papers

Identifier: MSS83382
Abstract

French privateer and governor of an independent republic which he established in Galveston, Texas. Correspondence, legal records, and other papers relating to Aury's experiences as a member of French naval forces sent to Hispaniola in 1802, corsair conducting raids on English and Spanish ships in the Caribbean Sea, naval commander for the United Provinces of Rio del Plata (Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), and governor of an independent republic in Galveston, Texas.

Dates 1801-1911; Majority of material found within ( 1801-1822)
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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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John J. Ballentine Papers

Identifier: MSS78663
Abstract

United States Navy officer and air pilot. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, logbooks, military records, biographical material, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Ballentine's naval career after 1920.

Dates 1913-1973; Majority of material found within ( 1942-1954)
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John J. Bayer Papers

Identifier: MSS84701
Abstract

Naval officer, engineer, and explorer. Diaries, general correspondence, autographs, photograph, and newspaper clippings documenting Bayer’s service as a member of the scientific corps on the City of New York (flagship) during the first Byrd Antarctic exploring expedition, 1928-1930.

Dates 1928-1956; Majority of material found within ( 1928-1938)
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George E. Belknap Papers

Identifier: MSS52696
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, articles, memoranda, and miscellaneous papers relating to Belknap’s naval career.

Dates 1857-1903
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Reginald Rowan Belknap Papers

Identifier: MSS52704
Abstract

Naval officer. Family and personal correspondence, financial and legal material, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Belknap’s naval career and his family.

Dates 1784-1929; Majority of material found within 1900-1929
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Frank M. Bennett Papers

Identifier: MSS55830
Abstract

Naval officer and author. Chiefly testimonial letters and newspaper and magazine reviews of Bennett’s books, The Steam Navy of the United States (1896) and The Monitor and the Navy Under Steam (1900).

Dates 1893-1909; Majority of material found within ( 1897-1907)
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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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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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William H. P. Blandy Papers

Identifier: MSS81522
Abstract

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.

Dates 1913-1977
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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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Joel Thompson Boone Papers

Identifier: MSS13227
Abstract

Physician and naval officer. A memoir, diaries, correspondence, photographs, reports, military papers, and other material documenting Boone's career as a medical officer in World War I, personal physician to Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, naval officer and doctor, and his work with the Hoover Commission, Veterans Administration, and the medical survey of the bituminous coal industry.

Dates 1755-1971; Majority of material found within 1905-1971
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Harold Gardiner Bowen Papers

Identifier: MSS31476
Abstract

Naval officer and engineer. Correspondence, military orders, news clippings, writings, and other papers relating to Bowen's activities with the Newcomen Society and the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation and his various business interests. Some material pertains to his duties as chief of the United States Navy Bureau of Engineering and as director of the Naval Research Laboratory during World War II.

Dates 1907-1977; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1959)
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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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Browning Family Papers

Identifier: MSS53140
Abstract

Browning family members including Robert Lewright Browning (1803-1850), naval officer, his wife Eleanor Hanlon Browning, and their sons, Robert Lewright Browning (1835-1860), marine officer, and Charles Henry Browning (1846-1926), genealogist. Correspondence, journals, biographical file, genealogical and other notes, newspaper clippings, and printed material of the Browning family.

Dates 1824-1917; Majority of material found within ( 1835-1855)
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Willard H. Brownson Papers

Identifier: MSS57455
Abstract

United States naval officer. Correspondence, letterpress books, diaries, cruise book, night order books, scrapbooks, and watch, quarter, and station bill documenting Brownson's naval career, including his official and personal dealings with President Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates 1859-1932; Majority of material found within ( 1867-1932)
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John Lansing Callan Papers

Identifier: MSS52746
Abstract

Naval officer, aviator, and aviation executive. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, orders to duty, subject files, awards, biographical file, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating to Callan’s personal and business interests in aviation, service in World War I and World War II, and other public service activities.

Dates 1907-1956
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William Banks Caperton Papers

Identifier: MSS14951
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Correspondence, largely with William Shepherd Benson, reports, orders to duty, and newspaper clippings, chiefly relating to Caperton's naval career, particularly his command of the cruiser squadron, Atlantic Fleet, detailed in 1915-1916 to restore order in Haiti.

Dates 1873-1939
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Silas Casey Papers

Identifier: MSS51482
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journal, daybook, bills, receipts, commissions, and other papers relating to Casey’s naval service.

Dates 1771-1941; Majority of material found within 1862-1903
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Washington Irving Chambers Papers

Identifier: MSS50799
Abstract

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.

Dates 1871-1943; Majority of material found within 1911-1919
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Colby Mitchell Chester Papers

Identifier: MSS78410
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, research notes, and unpublished manuscripts relating to Chester's study of Commodore Dudley Saltonstall and the Penobscot Bay Expedition in 1779.

Dates 1913-1928; Majority of material found within ( 1913-1917)
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Warren G. Child Papers

Identifier: MSS84182
Abstract

Naval officer. Diary kept by Child while serving aboard seaplane tenders and aircraft carriers and as superintendent of the Naval Flight School in Pensacola, Florida, including also photographs and printed matter.

Dates 1907-1942
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Ralph W. Christie Papers

Identifier: MSS61737
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Chiefly Christie's official correspondence as a commander of submarines during World War II. Includes material relating to Christie's efforts to have a medal of honor awarded to submarine commander Samuel David Dealey.

Dates 1941-1945
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Edmund Ross Colhoun Papers

Identifier: MSS21303
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, notebooks, official records, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Colhoun's service with the Mediterranean and Brazil squadrons before the Civil War, his command of ships of blockade squadrons during the Civil War, and his command of the Asiatic Squadron.

Dates 1821-1918; Majority of material found within 1839-1874