Naval education -- History

This collection includes five letters from Stephen B. Luce, founder of the U.S. Naval War College, and one letter from Alfred T. Mahan, esteemed naval officer and historian.

Correspondence, memoranda, lists, contracts, inventories, military and naval orders, and plans regarding the early administration and curriculum of the Naval War College, new building construction, and items relating to the establishment of a naval coaling station in Narraganset Bay. Also included are journals and letterpress copybooks kept by past NWC presidents Charles Stockton and French Chadwick.

Biographical sketches, career material, publication and writings of NWC presidents.

Official correspondence regarding naval career, 1920–1951; Personal correspondence, 1908–1971; Family correspondence, chiefly to his mother, 1914–1934; Miscellany, including photographs, diary, menus, booklets, newspaper clippings; Correspondence and travel writings of his mother Mrs. Katherine Scott Umsted, 1904–1934.

Historical file pertaining to the function, administration and organization of the WOS, 1961-1973; Subject file regarding the ADM Arleigh Burke Award for Excellence, 1968-1974; photos of Nurse Corps Officers in war uniforms; photos of first OIC of US General Line School, Women, 1948; Framed extracts of US Navy Uniform Regulations 1913; framed Congressional Medal of Honor Citation awarded posthumously to BMC, E.J. Hill, 1941. Newport RI