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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

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Henry Harley Arnold Papers

Identifier: MSS11189
Abstract

Pioneer aviator and United States Army officer. Correspondence, memoranda, journals, notebooks, drafts and proofs of Henry Harley (Hap) Arnold's memoirs, Global Mission (1949), articles, speeches, reports, orders, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the development of military aeronautics in the United States and to aeronautical policies and events of World War II.

Dates 1903-1963; Majority of material found within 1940-1946
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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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Thomas T. Craven Papers

Identifier: MSS61733
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, family papers, and subject files relating primarily to his convoy duty and command of United States Naval Aviation Forces in Europe during World War I, and his command of a gunboat flotilla on the Yangtze River in China during 1929-1931.

Dates 1842-1969; Majority of material found within 1917-1945
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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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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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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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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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Gerhard Alden Gesell Papers

Identifier: MSS81163
Abstract

Judge and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts of writings, speeches, agenda and minutes of meetings, opinions, orders, dockets, notes, sentencing information, case files, and other legal papers and material pertaining primarily to Gesell's career as judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and documenting his cases in the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, antitrust matters, patent cases, and government regulations.

Dates 1913-2003; Majority of material found within 1962-1992
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Cordell Hull Papers

Identifier: MSS26765
Abstract

United States senator and representative of Tennessee and secretary of state. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, manuscript of The Memoirs of Cordell Hull (1948), speeches and statements, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating chiefly to Hull's career as secretary of state.

Dates 1908-1956; Majority of material found within 1933-1944
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Robert A. Lavender Papers

Identifier: MSS86198
Abstract

United States Navy officer and attorney. Diaries, logbooks, military records, biographical material, clippings, photographs, and other material related to Lavender's naval and legal careers.

Dates 1911-1976
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Frank Ross McCoy Papers

Identifier: MSS31989
Abstract

Army officer. General and family correspondence, diaries, military and subject files, notebooks, dispatch books, speeches and writings, financial papers, scrapbooks, and other material pertaining chiefly to McCoy’s military career and to various diplomatic assignments.

Dates 1847-1957; Majority of material found within 1892-1954
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Samuel Eliot Morison Papers

Identifier: MSS83050
Abstract

U.S. naval officer and historian. Journals and research notebooks relating mainly to the oceanic theaters of World War II, antisubmarine warfare, and Morison's writings.

Dates 1939-1972; Majority of material found within ( 1942-1956)
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Theodore Stark Wilkinson Jr. Papers

Identifier: MSS48934
Abstract

Naval officer. Personal and official correspondence, speeches, memoranda, diaries, biographical information, dispatches, transcripts, maps, plans, photographs, clippings, printed matter, and a scrapbook relating to Wilkinson’s naval career.

Dates 1893-1971; Majority of material found within 1910-1945