Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936
Dates
- Existence: 18581015 - 19360925
Found in 533 Collections and/or Records:
Address for opening course for class of June 1919, 1919 Jun 2
This collection consists of transcipts of addresses delivered by staff and guest speakers at U.S. Naval War College opening days, graduation exercises, Convocations, and other special events.
Address Given at the Graduation of the Class of June 1919, 1920 May 22
College curriculum items, including orientation materials, lectures, addresses, tactical, strategic, demonstrative, scouting and screening and operational problems, maneuver rules, fire effect diagrams, quick decision problems, directives, manuals, articles, historical presentations compiled by members of the Department of Intelligence on naval battles, and translations of the War at Sea, 1914–1918, and miscellaneous NWC publications.
Address Opening Courses for Class of June 1919, 1919 Jun 2
College curriculum items, including orientation materials, lectures, addresses, tactical, strategic, demonstrative, scouting and screening and operational problems, maneuver rules, fire effect diagrams, quick decision problems, directives, manuals, articles, historical presentations compiled by members of the Department of Intelligence on naval battles, and translations of the War at Sea, 1914–1918, and miscellaneous NWC publications.
Address to the Graduating Class of 1921, 1921 Nov
College curriculum items, including orientation materials, lectures, addresses, tactical, strategic, demonstrative, scouting and screening and operational problems, maneuver rules, fire effect diagrams, quick decision problems, directives, manuals, articles, historical presentations compiled by members of the Department of Intelligence on naval battles, and translations of the War at Sea, 1914–1918, and miscellaneous NWC publications.
Address to the Graduating Class of Dec 1919, 1920 Nov 20
College curriculum items, including orientation materials, lectures, addresses, tactical, strategic, demonstrative, scouting and screening and operational problems, maneuver rules, fire effect diagrams, quick decision problems, directives, manuals, articles, historical presentations compiled by members of the Department of Intelligence on naval battles, and translations of the War at Sea, 1914–1918, and miscellaneous NWC publications.
Anne Sims Morison typescript reminiscences, 1995
Typescript reminiscences entitled "Memories of a Child's life in the President's House at the Naval War College, 1919-1922" by the daughter of Admiral W. S. Sims, President, NWC, 1917, 1919-1922. Topics include the children's nurses, Navy stewards, the arrival of the Atlantic Fleet in Newport, a visit to the NWC War Gaming room and a return visit to Quarters AA, ca. 1979. Biographical information on the Sims Family.
Articles about Sims, undated
Biographical sketches, career material, publication and writings of NWC presidents.
Biographical information, undated
Biographical sketches, career material, publication and writings of NWC presidents.
Chronology of dispatches, cables, letters of Sims, 1917-1920
Biographical sketches, career material, publication and writings of NWC presidents.
E. T. Pollock NWC diploma, 1920 Jun
Naval War College diploma signed by Admiral William S. Sims.
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- letters (correspondence) 24
- transcriptions (documents) 21
- photographs 7
- term papers 3
- Admirals' spouses 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, American 2
- Admirals -- United States -- History 1
- Ambassadors -- United States -- History 1
- Narragansett Bay -- History 1
- Naval education -- History 1
- biographical files 1
- contracts 1
- ephemera 1
- financial records 1
- invitations 1
- letter books 1
- lists 1
- logs (records) 1
- memorandums 1
- military orders 1
- newspaper clippings 1
- poems 1
- printed ephemera 1
- reports 1 + ∧ less