Correspondence, Memoranda, NWCF gift files and museum development.

Correspondence, Memoranda, NWCF gift files and museum development.

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.

This collection is comprised of vertical files housed in filing cabinets in alphabetical order. Some subjects may consist of multiple folders. The vertical files include publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, essays and miscellaneous materials relating to the history, development, and academic programs of the NWC.

Compilations of articles, portions of books and government documents used in Strategy, National Security Decision Making, and Operations Department Curriculum.

Administrative files, 1986–1989; Biographical sketch; Correspondence and memoranda, 1986–1989; Writings, including articles, 1986–1988; Lectures and speeches, 1986–1988; Syllabi for Naval War College electives, 1987–1988; Subject Files, 1987–1988; Ocean Law and Policy Research Department materials, 1988.

Correspondence and subject files pertaining to administration, organization, mission, functions and buildings of the Naval Training Station and Naval Station, 1885–1974; Historical subject files of Coasters Harbor Island, Fort Adams, USS Constitution, USS Constellation, visits of Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon, 150th Anniversary of landing of General Rochambeau, 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Rhode Island, hurricanes, fires, Public Works Department, Tercentenary of city of Newport, Naval Air Station, Naval Torpedo Station, Naval Operating Base, and Goat Island, 1885–1974; Command Histories, 1958–1974; War Diaries, 1941–1943; Publications including Our Naval Apprentice, Newport Recruit and Newport Navalog; Photographs and photograph albums of the Naval Base, Naval Station, recruit training and special events, 1890–1963; Picture book, log book, leave books, and organization and regulation books, 1885–1974.

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.

Research source materials relating to the life and career of Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, 1889–1893, for the work entitled Benjamin F. Tracy, Father of the American Fighting Navy. Materials include Xeroxed copies, holograph and typewritten notes from the National Archives, Navy Department Archives and Library of Congress relating to Tracy’s youth, education, legal training, Civil War record, post–Civil War career as N.Y. Attorney, Secretary of the Navy including administration of the Navy Yard and reforms, construction of the New Navy, Relations with Congress, Administration of President Benjamin Harrison, Naval War College and A.T. Mahan, Naval Reserve Militia and International Relations with Chile and Caribbean, Bering Sea, Hawaii, and Venezuela, New York, Brooklyn politics and final years, 1832–1915; Xerox copies of Annual Reports of Secretary of Navy and Navy Department, 1889–1892; Reports of the Steel Inspection Board, 1890–1893; Proceedings of the Board of Design of Ships; Copies of General Orders and Circulars, 1887–1893; Typescript of B.F. Tracy, Father of the American Fighting Navy and typescript of dissertation, “B.F. Tracy, Lawyer, Soldier, Secretary of the Navy”; Copies of newspaper clippings; Microfilm of Tracy papers.

Research source materials relating to the life and career of Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, 1889–1893, for the work entitled Benjamin F. Tracy, Father of the American Fighting Navy. Materials include Xeroxed copies, holograph and typewritten notes from the National Archives, Navy Department Archives and Library of Congress relating to Tracy’s youth, education, legal training, Civil War record, post–Civil War career as N.Y. Attorney, Secretary of the Navy including administration of the Navy Yard and reforms, construction of the New Navy, Relations with Congress, Administration of President Benjamin Harrison, Naval War College and A.T. Mahan, Naval Reserve Militia and International Relations with Chile and Caribbean, Bering Sea, Hawaii, and Venezuela, New York, Brooklyn politics and final years, 1832–1915; Xerox copies of Annual Reports of Secretary of Navy and Navy Department, 1889–1892; Reports of the Steel Inspection Board, 1890–1893; Proceedings of the Board of Design of Ships; Copies of General Orders and Circulars, 1887–1893; Typescript of B.F. Tracy, Father of the American Fighting Navy and typescript of dissertation, “B.F. Tracy, Lawyer, Soldier, Secretary of the Navy”; Copies of newspaper clippings; Microfilm of Tracy papers.