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    Morton L. Deyo papers, 1911-1981 Naval officer. Correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings documenting Deyo's career in the Navy, particularly as a naval task force commander during World War II in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
    • Contributor: Deyo, Morton L. (Morton Lyndholm)
    • Date: 1911
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    William H.P. Blandy papers, 1913-1977 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.
    • Contributor: Blandy, William H. P. (William Henry Purnell)
    • Date: 1913
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    David Foote Sellers papers, 1860-1949 Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, photos, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Sellers’s naval career.
    • Contributor: Sellers, David Foote
    • Date: 1927
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    John Wills Greenslade papers, 1847-1961 Naval officer. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, speeches and writings, subject files, dispatches, contracts, blueprints, charts, maps, tables, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting Greenslade's career in the United States Navy from the Spanish-American War through both world wars.
    • Contributor: Greenslade, John Wills
    • Date: 1847
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    Benjamin S. Custer papers, 1912-2000 United States Navy officer and air pilot. Correspondence, military records, photographs, scrapbooks, writings, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Custer's naval career after 1922, naval aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders during World War II, and the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corp at Princeton University during the 1950s.
    • Contributor: Custer, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Scott)
    • Date: 1912
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    Emory Scott Land papers, 1901-1972 Naval officer and public official. Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's government service as head of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, and chief administrator of the U.S. War Shipping Administration. Includes material relating to his cousin, Charles A. Lindbergh, and Land's testimony in the...
    • Contributor: Land, Emory Scott
    • Date: 1900
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    H. Kent Hewitt papers, 1903-1972 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.
    • Contributor: Hewitt, H. Kent (Henry Kent)
    • Date: 1903
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    John L. McCrea papers, 1898-1984 Naval officer, aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and insurance executive. Correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and photographs relating primarily to McCrea's career as a naval officer.
    • Contributor: McCrea, John L. (John Livingstone)
    • Date: 1898
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    Edwin Bickford Hooper papers, 1842-1986 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.
    • Contributor: Hooper, Edwin Bickford
    • Date: 1842
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    Edward Ellsberg papers, 1891-2008 United States Navy officer and author. Notebooks, correspondence, memoranda, lectures, articles, book drafts, short stories, play drafts, radio scripts, patents, military files, newspaper clippings, digital files, and other material relating to Ellsberg's service as an engineer and naval salvage expert. Also included are drafts and research files relating to John Doughty Alden's book entitled Salvage Man: Edward Ellsberg and the U.S. Navy.
    • Contributor: Ellsberg, Edward
    • Date: 1891
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    Herbert Bain Knowles papers, 1941-1945 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.
    • Contributor: Knowles, Herbert Bain
    • Date: 1941
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    Stephen C. Rowan papers, 1826-1890 United States Navy officer. Journals and a letterbook relating to Rowan's naval service.
    • Contributor: Rowan, Stephen C. (Stephen Clegg)
    • Date: 1826
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    Cyrus Robinson Miller papers, 1897-1940 Naval officer. Midshipman's logs documenting activities of the United States Battleship Oregon during the Spanish-American War and the armored cruiser Buffalo, radio logs of the protected cruiser Cleveland which led merchant convoys in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I, and a ditty about life aboard the troop ship Von Steuben.
    • Contributor: Miller, Cyrus Robinson
    • Date: 1897
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    Lucius C. Dunn papers, 1902-1957 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.
    • Contributor: Dunn, Lucius C. (Lucius Claude)
    • Date: 1902
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    Alfred Easton Poor papers, 1866-1985 Architect and naval officer. Correspondence, writings, publications, reports, and appointment calendars pertaining primarily to Poor's architectural career, particularly his designs for public buildings, and his naval service during World War I and World War II.
    • Contributor: Poor, Alfred Easton
    • Date: 1866
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    John Wills Greenslade correspondence transcripts, 1900-2010 Naval officer. Transcripts of correspondence, biographical material, and digital files relating to Greenslade's career in the United States Navy.
    • Contributor: Greenslade, John Wills
    • Date: 1900
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    John Calvin Leonard papers, 1882-1920 Naval officer. Chiefly diaries relating to Leonard's naval career and role of the U.S. Navy in the Spanish-American War and in World War I.
    • Contributor: Leonard, John Calvin
    • Date: 1882
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    William Sowden Sims papers, 1856-1951 Naval officer. Correspondence, memoranda, writings, notes, reports, military orders, biographical material, clippings, and other papers primarily documenting Sims's naval career and his work relating to naval reforms.
    • Contributor: Sims, William Sowden
    • Date: 1856
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    Ernest Joseph King papers, 1908-1991 Naval officer. Official and general correspondence, orders to duty, speech, article, and book file, memoranda, notes, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to King's activities as commander in chief of the United States Fleet and chief of naval operations during World War II.
    • Contributor: King, Ernest Joseph
    • Date: 1908
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    David D. Porter family papers, 1799-1899 Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, logbooks, orders, reports, memoranda, family papers, drafts of articles, memoirs, poems, short stories, and other literary writings, sketches, photographs, and printed matter documenting David D. Porter's naval career. Includes material on his years as a midshipman, his service in the Mexican War, trips to the Mediterranean to secure camels for use by the United States Army, Civil War service, superintendency...
    • Contributor: Porter, David D. (David Dixon)
    • Date: 1799
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    John Lansing Callan papers, 1907-1956 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.
    • Contributor: Callan, John Lansing
    • Date: 1907
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    Thomas T. Craven papers, 1842-1969 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.
    • Contributor: Craven, Thomas T. (Thomas Tingey)
    • Date: 1842
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    David Conner papers, 1817-1847 Naval officer. Correspondence, reports, invoices, ships returns, extracts from ships logs, and other official naval papers primarily pertaining to Conner's service as commander of U.S. naval forces in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.
    • Contributor: Conner, David
    • Date: 1817
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    Frederick Joseph Horne papers, 1893-1967 U.S. Navy officer. Correspondence, reports, speeches and writings, aviator's logbooks, scrapbooks, printed matter, and memorabilia relating to Horne's naval career during World War I and World War II.
    • Contributor: Horne, Frederick Joseph
    • Date: 1893
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    John Loyall Saunders papers, 1844-1857 Naval officer. Correspondence, orders, and other papers covering primarily the period of Saunders's command of the USS St. Mary's, 1844-1847 and relating to the Mexican War.
    • Contributor: Saunders, John Loyall
    • Date: 1844