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Box 1

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Arleigh A. Burke letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-192
Content Description

Correspondence, letters sent and received from Robert R. Gros, Vice President, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA, 1958–1965; Invitations, 1961.

Dates: 1958 - 1965

John W. Wadsworth letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-166
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, letters sent from USS Plymouth, in Norfolk, VA, Key West, Cuba, and Haiti, June 3–September 20, 1858, to his mother, brother and sister. He describes life aboard ship, personal details, a trip ashore in Sagua, Cuba, and breakfast with a port officer, visiting shops there, receipt of her letter in Havana, Cuba, his studying Spanish, lack of money, the Cuban señoritas, Negroes of Cuba, the ship’s route, visit to Port au Prince, Haiti, and the Negro population there, criticisms of his mess mates and sailors (their lack of manners, education and selfishness), port call in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to transport U.S. Minister, Mr. Forsyth, home, his unfavorable impressions of the city, voyage to Tampico to protect American property, his desire to be home and his dislike of life at sea.

Dates: 1858

L. Jane Irvine Williams postcards

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-171
Scope and Contents

Postcards sent to her mother, Mrs. F.K. Irvine, Chicago, IL and received, 1944–1946, during her service in the WAVES at the U.S. Naval Training School (WR), Bronx, New York, USNH, Philadelphia, PA and USNH, San Diego, CA.

Dates: 1944 - 1946

Evelyn M. Powell Grubaugh papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-173
Content Description

Memoirs of naval service in the WAVES; Naval papers, including separation from service, 1946; Newspaper clippings, WAVES Matchbook, ration card; Imprints, including Havelock, November–December 1945; WAVES songbook and jokebook; Group photograph of WAVES at U.S. Training School (WR) Bronx, NY and in Washington, D.C., 1944–1946.

Dates: 1944 - 1946

Albert F. White naval papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-180
Content Description

Naval Orders, including change of duty, 1941–1943; Memo regarding promotion to CDR and performance of duty, 1943; Mailgram; Citations for Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and Silver Star, ca. 1944.

Dates: 1941 - 1944

George W. Van Benschoten papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-181
Dates: 1917-1922, and 1968

Lloyd F. Hill papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-176
Content Description

Papers: Correspondence, personal letters sent March 13, 1918-June 22, 1918 to friend Wesley Smith, Roslyn, NY, regarding his assignment to USS Ossippee awaiting overseas orders, the Philadelphia Navy Yard and training at Camp Upton, NY, during WWI.

Dates: 1918

Charles P. Thompson papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-019
Content Description

Paymaster’s records kept aboard USS Kenosha, USS Plymouth, USS Congress, USS Lancaster, and USS Trenton, 1869–1887, consisting of dates of departure, ports visited, dates of arrival, distances traveled, length of cruises, days at sea, days in port, and miscellaneous related and personal notes; Memoranda on ship’s expenses, pay, and personal matters and accounts, 1883–1893.

Dates: 1862 - 1893

Henry Trevor Cook letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-007
Content Description

Letters to his mother, 1862–1863, written while he was a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, Newport, RI, 1862–1863.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Cameron McRae Winslow papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-008
Content Description

U.S. Naval Academy diploma, 1875; U.S. Naval commissioning certificates signed by Presidents and Secretaries of the Navy, 1882, 1883, 1888, 1899, 1903, 1908, 1911; Army commission certificate, 1916 signed by the President and Secretary of War; Copies of messages, reports, ship’s log entries and other items relating to the cutting of the ocean cable at the entrance to the harbor of Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1898–1899.

Dates: 1898 - 1899