Box 22

Typescript of manuscript entitled “Once a WAVE: My Life in the Navy, 1942–1946” is an account of her naval training, billets at USNTS (WR), Bronx, NY and in Hawaii where, as a LCDR, she was one of the last WAVES to leave.

"The First South Pacific Campaign. January-June 1941," MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin­Milwaukee, 1974. The thesis focuses on the strategic situation in the South Pacific, the Battle of the Coral Sea and its strategic aftermath, including U.S. and Japanese strategies.

Holograph letter signed, New York, to William S. Kendall an artist, requesting that the sittings for his portrait be scheduled in the afternoons and that he be given the correct studio address.

Holograph letter signed, Gloucester, Mass., to Littleton W. Gazewell, prize agent, on behalf of John Rowe, Seaman on the USS Guerriere at the capture of the Algerine Squadron. Requests prize money or channel through which he can obtain it.

Cruise book of ship's voyage from San Francisco Bay to Manila Bay, 1895-1899, by L. S. Young containing a narrative of the voyage and a reissue of seven issues of the Bounding Billow, treating the Spanish-American War, the Battle of Manila Bay and the fall of Manila. Textual illustrations, photographic plates and poetry by L.S. Young.

Holograph diary kept aboard USS Independence, USS Hartford, USS Massachusetts and USS Atlanta with the South Atlantic and Caribbean Squadrons. Cruises included the east coast of South America, the Caribbean Sea, the Mississippi River and the U.S. east coast. The USS Atlanta crew aided government troops during the March-April revolt in the Dominican Republic after the president was overthrown. Daily entries include fleet maneuvers, target practice, inspections, sports, coaling, visits of dignitaries and admirals, liberty, foreign ships and celebrations. There are seventy-three photographs of ports visited, U.S. and foreign ships, crews; Three watercolor sketches of USS Atlanta, Santo Domingo and sailor with hat; Hand painted U.S. and international flags; Lists of U.S. ships foreign ships, record of USS Atlanta's baseball team, semaphore and cypher codes and imprint of general court marlial order for Philip Fechter, USS Atlanta, 1904.