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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

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Richard Dale Papers

Identifier: MSS56952
Abstract Naval officer; served with the British navy from 1776 to 1777 when he joined the Continental Navy, serving as first lieutenant to John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard. Correspondence, commissions, mathematics notebook, and journal/logbook (1787-1789) kept on a voyage aboard a merchant ship to Canton, China, and to New Guinea. Includes letterbook (1801-1802) of Dale's outgoing correspondence while in command of the U.S. frigate President in the...
Dates 1778-1918; Majority of material found within ( 1778-1830)
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Edward John Dorn Papers

Identifier: MSS22186
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, diaries, orders to duty, speeches, notes, photographs, and printed materials pertaining to Dorn's naval cruises to Brazil, South Africa, Samoan Islands, Guam, and Japan, and to his experiences as governor of American Samoa and Guam, especially in regard to missionaries, schools, water supply, and immigrants.

Dates 1868-1936; Majority of material found within ( 1875-1922)
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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 Correspondence, memoranda, articles, lectures, short stories, unpublished journal and memoirs, research notes, muscial compositions, official orders, reports, schedules, clippings, printed material, scrapbooks, prints, slides,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 Fielding Eliot Papers

Identifier: MSS19646
Abstract

Author, journalist, and military analyst. Correspondence, diary, biographical material, manuscripts of writings, drafts of various articles, notes, speeches and drafts of radio broadcasts, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating mainly to Eliot's career as a newspaper columnist, contributor to periodicals, and military editor of Collier's Encyclopedia.

Dates 1939-1971; Majority of material found within 1950-1971
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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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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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H. Kent Hewitt Papers

Identifier: MSS61740
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, naval planning memoranda, writings, and newspaper clippings documenting Hewitt's naval career, especially as commander of United States naval forces in the Mediterranean during World War II.

Dates 1903-1972; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1949)
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Richmond Pearson Hobson Papers

Identifier: MSS26153
Abstract

Naval officer and United States representative from Alabama. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, articles, reports, notes, analyses, naval orders, press clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Hobson's naval career and to his efforts on behalf of prohibition, restrictions on international drug trafficking, and opposition to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.

Dates 1889-1966; Majority of material found within 1890-1937
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Roswell Randall Hoes Papers

Identifier: MSS26203
Abstract

Naval officer and chaplain. Correspondence, notebooks, ship records, clippings, and printed matter relating chiefly to the Spanish-American War and its aftermath.

Dates 1799-1912
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Edwin Bickford Hooper Papers

Identifier: MSS78221
Abstract

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.

Dates 1842-1986; Majority of material found within ( 1931-1986)
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Herbert Bain Knowles Papers

Identifier: MSS12112
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, orders to duty, subject files concerning invasion plans and occupation reports for Guam, Japan, Kwajalein Islands (Marshall Islands), Leyte Island (Philippines), Lingayen (Luzon, Philippines), Okinawa Island (Japan), Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands), and Tarawa Atoll (Kiribati), and printed matter relating to Knowles's service with the Amphibious Forces in the Pacific during World War II.

Dates 1941-1945
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Dudley Wright Knox Papers

Identifier: MSS50070
Abstract

Naval officer and historian. Correspondence, subject files, speeches, articles, book file, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other material relating to Knox's activities as director of the United States Office of Naval Records and Library, as secretary of the Naval Historical Foundation, and as an author of books and articles on naval affairs.

Dates circa 1864-1960; Majority of material found within ( 1921-1946)
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A T. Mahan Papers

Identifier: MSS31062
Abstract

Naval officer and historian. Correspondence, family papers, subject files, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, biographical file, printed matter, and other papers relating to Mahan’s naval career, writings, and personal and family life.

Dates 1779-1970; Majority of material found within ( 1890-1914)
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Mary Edith Powell Naval Historical Collection

Identifier: MSS52845
Abstract

Collector of naval history. Correspondence, biographical data on American and foreign naval officers, newspaper and magazine clippings, illustrations, photographs, commissions, autographs, pamphlets, and notes collected by Powel about naval history.

Dates 1747-1922; Majority of material found within 1890-1899
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Christopher Prince Papers

Identifier: MSS84124
Abstract

Sailor and activist in the seamen's religious movement. Manuscript autobiography containing accounts of seafaring life in colonial New England, maritime events of the Revolutionary War, Prince's employment by agents of George Washington, his enlistment in the Connecticut navy, the close of the war, and his conversion to Christianity shortly thereafter.

Dates 1806-1891
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Nathan Sargent Papers

Identifier: MSS52936
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, diaries, journals, writings photographs, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating to Sargent's naval duties.

Dates 1866-1957; Majority of material found within ( 1880-1905)
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Charles Jackson Train Journals

Identifier: MSS83918
Abstract

Naval officer. Journals by Train documenting his education at the United States Naval Academy and cruises in European, Mediterranean, and South American waters.

Dates 1863-1870
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Francis Winslow Papers

Identifier: MSS22293
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, logs, and other papers documenting Winslow's naval career.

Dates 1833-1863