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International Seapower Symposium records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-22
Abstract

The International Seapower Symposium (ISS) is a biennial meeting held at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC), hosted by the Chief of Naval Operations and the President, U.S. Naval War College. This record group consists of correspondence, reports, publications, photographs, audio cassettes, digital media (floppy disks and compact discs, etc), and digital files documenting the organization and proceedings of each symposium.

Dates: 1969-

Kenneth E. Lang papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-203
Content Description

Correspondence, letters sent to Kenneth Lang's parents and a relative in Chicago from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, IL and Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 1944–1945. The letters describe his naval training, daily routine, work, boot camp, Bugle Corps, and feelings about naval service during WWII.

Dates: 1944-1945

Alfred Thayer Mahan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-017
Abstract

This collection consists of lectures, letters, and other documents kept by Alfred T. Mahan, naval officer, renowned maritime historian, and past president of the Naval War College.

Dates: 1814-1914 and undated

Manuscript Items

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-364
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of single manuscripts items from past NWC presidents, faculty, and staff, as well as other other naval officers and military service members from Rhode Island and the surrounding area. These items include correspondence, journals, reports, certificates, commissions, scrapbooks, and other ephemera that relate to the history of the U.S. Naval War College, the history of navies in the Narragansett Bay region, and the history of naval warfare and strategy.

Dates: 1783-2013 and undated

Stephen McCarthy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-064
Abstract

Lieutenant Stephen McCarthy (1859-1938) served in the U.S. Navy from 1887 until his retirement in 1923. He retired in Newport, Rhode Island. His papers include naval commissions from various promotions in the U.S. Navy.

Dates: 1889-1920

Naval War College Presidents records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-28
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1876-1987

William L. Ostroskie letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-368
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of letters sent and received by William L. Ostroskie (1922-1943) during his time in the US Navy serving in the United States and in Europe.

Dates: 1942 Oct 22-1943 Aug 9, undated

Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers letter to Raymond Perry Rodgers

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSC-393
Abstract

This collection consists of one letter written from Rear Admiral Christopher Raymond Perry to his son, Raymond Perry Rodgers.

Dates: 1861 May 3

Benedict J. Semmes papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-063
Abstract

Correspondence, including personal and official Naval War College letters and naval orders, 1931–1987; Speeches, undated–1972; Writings, including articles of Mrs. Semmes, 1958–1973; Semmes Family genealogy; Miscellany, including career and family photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, programs, booklets, and invitations, 1944–1987.

Dates: 1931 - 1987

William S. Sims papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-168
Content Description Personal letters sent to his parents, siblings, friend Jones and his wife, Anne Hitchcock Sims, 1882–1925; Letters received from Navy Department regarding assignment; Letters comment on travels, places visited, family matters, politics and rebellions in the Caribbean, ship’s movements, health, social life in port, shipboard life, Hawaiian politics, life in Paris, France, French lessons, Sino-Japanese War, position as Naval Attaché in Paris and St. Petersburg, travels through Europe, criticism of U.S. Navy, World War I assignment as CO, Naval Forces, European Waters, London, England, 1917–1978, including daily routine and social life; Assignments on the China Station. Letters sent by Anne Sims to William S. Sims, 1906, 1909–1912, 1915–1917, regarding family matters. Scope and Contents The twenty-five box collection measures twelve and one-half linear feet and is divided into five series. Series I contains typescript copies of personal letters sent by Sims to his parents, his sister Louisa and brothers, Harry and Alfred, his friend Jones, and to his wife, Anne Hitchcock Sims. They date from 1881 to 1925. Several personal letters Sims received are located here. The letters focus on his daily shipboard routine, family matters, health, social life, financial matters, and friends as well as his duties as a naval officer and naval attaché. He described the geography, politics, economics, people, and customs of the countries he...
Dates: 1876-1925 and undated

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Admirals -- United States -- Biography 2
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Names
Naval War College (U.S.) 10
Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914 4
United States. Navy 3
Buell, Thomas B. 2
Hitchcock family 2
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Hitchcock, Margaret Dwight, 1878-1926 2
Howland, Llewellyn, III 2
King, Ernest Joseph, 1878-1956 2
Little, Brown and Company 2
Luce, Stephen Bleecker, 1827-1917 2
Moore, Charles J. 2
Naval War College (U.S.). Foundation 2
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966 2
Shepley, Sarah Hitchcock, 1870-1957 2
Sims family 2
Sims, Anne Hitchcock, 1875-1960 2
Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 2
United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff 2
Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915 1
Almgren, Neal, 1915-1984 1
Barber, Charles F., 1917-2012 1
Battaglia, Charles 1
Bieri, Bernhard H. (Bernhard Henry), 1889-1971 1
Bismarck (Battleship) 1
Bogart, Gerald S., 1914- 1
Bogart, Margaret Spruance, 1919-1996 1
Braun, Boynton L. 1
Braun, Mary 1
Buell, Marilyn 1
Bull, Cornelius H. 1
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
Cannon, Robert M. (Robert Mylchrist), 1901-1976 1
Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 1
Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917 1
Chapin, Harvey Goldsmith, 1903-1987 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 1
Colombia. President (1821-1830 : Bolívar) 1
Confederate States of America. Navy 1
Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948 1
Dietrich, Neil K. (Neil Kittrell), 1901-1982 1
Dolphin (Schooner) 1
Eccles, Henry E. (Henry Effingham), 1898-1986 1
Filmer, Charles 1
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 1
Forrestel, Emmet Peter, 1898- 1
Galard, Geneviève de, 1924- 1
Ginna, Robert Emmett 1
Goodrich, Caspar F. (Caspar Frederick), 1847-1925 1
Hall, Wilburn B. (Wilburn Briggs), 1838-1912 1
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 1
Harwood, A. A. (Andrew Allen), 1802-1884 1
Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919 1
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1835-1909 1
Hitchcock, Henry, 1829-1902 1
Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946 1
Hosmer, Asa 1
Ingraham family 1
Ingraham, Duncan N. (Duncan Nathaniel), 1802-1891 1
Ingraham, John H. 1
International Seapower Symposium 1
Keyes, C. M. (Charles M.) 1
King family 1
King, Ernest J., Jr., 1922-1990 1
Knight, Austin Melvin, 1854-1927 1
Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960 1
Lacy, William Sterling Byrd, 1910-1978 1
Lang, Kenneth E. 1
Lansdale, Edward Geary, 1908-1987 1
Lovett, Ralph B., 1890-1977 1
Low, Alice Paul Requa 1
Low, Francis S. (Francis Stuart), 1894-1964 1
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964 1
Mahan, Helen Evans, 1873-1963 1
Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959 1
Mason, George C. (George Champlin), 1820-1894 1
Matter, Elizabeth, 1915-1989 1
McCann, Allan R. (Allan Rockwell), 1896-1978 1
McCarthy, Stephen, 1859-1938 1
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 1
Merrell, John Porter, 1846-1916 1
Moreno, John A., 1908- 1
Morin, Edward C. 1
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976 1
Naval Academy Preparatory School (U.S.) 1
Naval Education and Training Center (U.S.) 1
Naval Science Institute 1
Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection 1
Naval War College Museum 1
Orem, Howard E. 1
Ostroskie, William Leo, 1922-1943 1
Perry, Raymond R., 1894-1925 1
Pihl, Charlotte E., 1899-1979 1
Pihl, Paul E., 1898-1991 1
Piper, Ferdinand, 1811-1889 1
Plymouth (Ship) 1
Potter, E. B. (Elmer Belmont), 1908- 1
Quill, Berkeley C. 1
Rice, Robert Henry, 1903-1994 1
Robbins, Thomas H. (Thomas Hinckley), 1900-1972 1
Rodgers, C. R. P. (Christopher Raymond Perry), 1819-1892 1
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