Books and manuals on naval topics, 1837-1918; correspondence, including letterbook, 1904-1915 and letters sent and received, 1902-1906, 1922-1925, 1930-1931, and 1936; Pamphlets and newspapers on naval topics, 1908-1945; photographs of ships and crew 1893-1918; Miscellany, including certificates, postcards, maps and scrapbook, 1895-1920, documenting Seller's career in the Navy as Chief Yeoman, 1887-1922.Two scrapbooks of personal and official papers; pamphlets and printed ephemera.

Maps, sketches, blueprints, and of buildings and facilities at various Newport Naval commands.

Papers: Correspondence, letters sent and received regarding Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI, 1882-1898, including a letter to William McCarty Little; Draft of letter, n.d; Trial sheet, Whitehead Torpedo, No. 71. n.d; Three diagrams of scale of yards, n.d. 1882-1898.

Central Files Records, including correspondence and subject collections on types of torpedoes, 1869-1885; Central Files Records, including correspondence, contracts, reprints, 1886-1925, 1942-1959; Miscellaneous material such as blueprints, material stock cards, torpedo data books and various test data. Newport, RI. Photographs, ca. 1915; Training manuals, 1937–1939, Newport, RI.

This collection consists of one 1942 Machinist's Shop Practice handbook for the Apprentice School at the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, RI.