Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search results
New Search
Search collections where
  • translation missing: en.search_results.four_part_id_contain

Showing Results: 361 - 370 of 391

Dr. Nathaniel M. Sims collection of Sims and Hitchcock family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-354
Abstract

This collection consists of correspondence, logbooks, photographs, publications, and other papers relating to the Sims and Hitchcock families, particularly Admiral William S. Sims, his wife Anne Hitchcock Sims, and her father Ethan Allen Hitchcock. These papers detail the families’ personal lives and relationships as well as the careers of Adm. Sims and Ethan Allen Hitchcock.

Dates: 1797-1993; Majority of material found within 1906-1945

Collection of Newport Area photographs and records

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-389
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs, minutes, correspondence, newspaper articles, and programs pertaining to Naval War College studies, buildings, people, and events. The collection also includes photographs and correspondence of events in Newport.

Dates: 1951 - 2009

Naval Torpedo Station records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-031
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1869 - 1985

U.S. Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, RI) records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSC-227
Dates: 1905-1914, 1906-1924, 1910-1951, and 1919-1953

Neil C. Porter papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-350
Abstract

This collection consists of papers detailing Captain Neil C. Porter’s (1913-2015) life and career in the U.S. Navy and at the Naval War College. It also includes the diary of Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Ritt (1890-1965), his father-in-law.

Dates: 1919-1986; Majority of material found within ( 1933-1962)

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

William M. Carpenter papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-346
Abstract

Captain William Milner Carpenter (1916-2006) was a World War II Pacific theater veteran with 26 years of active service in the United States Navy. After his retirement he spent 30 years working and consulting for SRI International. This collection include books, correspondence, photographs, and writings relating to both his naval and civilian careers.

Dates: 1934-2005; Majority of material found within 1934-1964

Frank M. Snyder papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-137
Abstract

Frank M. Snyder (1926-2017 ) is a career naval officer who worked as a Professor and Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. His papers include articles, research materials, speeches and lectures, audio and video cassette tapes, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to Snyder’s naval and professional academic career.

Dates: 1941-2010; Majority of material found within 1969-1994

Joseph H. Wellings papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-003
Abstract

This collection consists of materials regarding Wellings’ assignment as U.S. observer of the British Home Fleet, including his reminiscences of the sinking of the Bismarck in May 1941, as well as correspondence, writings, speeches, subject files, and other documentation relating to his naval career.

Dates: 1921-1983

Wilma S. Miles papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-026
Content Description The Wilma J. Miles papers were presented to the Naval War College in two separate lots: the first accession, mainly correspondence, writings, tourist literature, and photographs, was given by Mrs. Miles in 1974, and the second lot, correspondence and tourist literature relating to South America, in 1977. Both accessions were presented through the Naval War College Foundation.The papers focus on Wilma Miles’s life and travels as a Navy wife for over a quarter of a century, with emphasis on the period from 1925 to 1955. They include materials relating to her life as a young bride in China from 1925 to 1927 during the era of the warlords and growing Chinese nationalism, and a return three-year stay there from 1936 to 1939, just prior to the outbreak of World War II. Another large segment of the papers focuses on her travels throughout South America when her husband served as Commandant of the Fifteenth Naval District, Balboa, Canal Zone, from 1954 to 1956.The collection contains fifteen boxes, a file cabinet of photographs, and numerous photograph albums and books. It measures thirty-nine linear feet and is divided into six series: correspondence, writings, subject files, miscellany, photographs, and books.Series I, personal correspondence, consists of letters to Wilma Miles from her fiancé, Milton Miles, and his letters to her mother, Mrs. Charles Jerman, containing news of China and his experiences as an officer in the Asiatic Fleet from...
Dates: 1922 - 1999

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
photographs 29
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American 18
letters (correspondence) 18
newspaper clippings 12
Naval Station Newport (R.I.) 9
∨ more
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, American 8
scrapbooks 8
speeches (documents) 8
Naval strategy 5
Navy-yards and naval stations -- Newport (R.I.) 5
Newport (R.I.) -- History 5
United States -- History, Naval -- 20th century 5
correspondence 5
Midway, Battle of, 1942 4
Naval education 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean 4
ephemera 4
lectures 4
maps (documents) 4
research notes 4
Admirals -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Admirals -- United States -- History -- 20th century 3
Ambassadors -- United States -- History 3
Fort Adams (Newport, R.I.) 3
Naval education -- History 3
Naval education -- United States 3
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 3
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography 3
Spanish-American War, 1898 3
World War, 1939-1945 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States 3
audiocassettes 3
diaries 3
military commissions 3
oral histories (literary works) 3
reminiscenses 3
reports 3
slides (photographs) 3
writings (documents) 3
Admirals -- United States -- Biography 2
Admirals -- United States -- History 2
Admirals' spouses 2
Aerial photography 2
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 2
Historians -- United States 2
International law 2
Jutland, Battle of, 1916 2
Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944 2
Military intelligence 2
Narragansett Bay -- History 2
Operation Overlord 2
Submarines (Ships) 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations 2
War diaries 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 2
blueprints (reprographic copies) 2
certificates 2
christmas cards 2
drafts (documents) 2
handbooks 2
invitations 2
logs (records) 2
memorandums 2
military records 2
orders (military records) 2
postcards 2
ships' logs 2
Air bases -- Rhode Island -- History 1
Amphibious warfare 1
Basic training (Military education) 1
Camp Endicott (Davisville, R.I.) 1
Charlestown (R.I. : Town) -- History 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 1
China -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1949 1
Command and control systems 1
Communications, Military 1
Coral Sea, Battle of the, 1942 1
Cruisers (Warships) -- United States 1
Cryptography 1
Deception (Military science) 1
Destroyers (Warships) 1
Dogger Bank, Battle of the, 1915 1
Hurricanes -- Rhode Island 1
Japan -- History -- February Incident, 1936 (February 26) 1
Japan -- Politics and government -- 1912-1945 1
Lajes (Terceira Island, Azores) 1
Leadership 1
Logistics, Naval 1
Manila (Philippines) 1
Military attachés 1
Military bases, American 1
Military education -- United States 1
Military education -- United States -- 20th century 1
Military ethics 1
Military planning 1
Military spouses 1
Military spouses -- United States -- Correspondence 1
+ ∧ less
 
Language
English 389
German 3
French 1
Japanese 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Naval War College (U.S.) 27
United States. Navy 13
Naval War College (U.S.). Foundation 8
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 6
United States Naval Academy 6
∨ more
United States Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, R.I.) 6
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966 5
Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969 5
Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914 4
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 4
Sims family 4
Sims, Anne Hitchcock, 1875-1960 4
United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve 4
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 3
Hitchcock family 3
King, Ernest Joseph, 1878-1956 3
LeBourgeois, Julien J. 3
Moore, Charles J. 3
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976 3
Pineau, Roger, 1916-1993 3
Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 3
Barber, Charles F., 1917-2012 2
Brennan, Joseph Gerard, 1910-2004 2
Buell, Thomas B. 2
Burke, Arleigh A., 1901-1996 2
Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 2
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 2
Colbert, Richard G., 1915-1973 2
Eccles, Henry E. (Henry Effingham), 1898-1986 2
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 2
Forrestel, Emmet Peter, 1898- 2
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 2
Hattendorf, John B. 2
Hewitt, H. Kent (Henry Kent), 1887-1972 2
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1835-1909 2
Hitchcock, Henry, 1829-1902 2
Hitchcock, Margaret Dwight, 1878-1926 2
Howland, Llewellyn, III 2
International Seapower Symposium 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960 2
Little, Brown and Company 2
Low, Francis S. (Francis Stuart), 1894-1964 2
Luce, Stephen Bleecker, 1827-1917 2
Schonland, Herbert E. (Herbert Emery), 1900-1984 2
Shepley, Sarah Hitchcock, 1870-1957 2
Smith, Roy Campbell, 1858-1940 2
Sowden family 2
Stark, Harold R. (Harold Raynsford), 1880-1972 2
Strasser, Joseph C. 2
Taussig, Edward David, 1847-1921 2
Tracy, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1830-1915 2
United States Military Academy Preparatory School 2
United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff 2
United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet. Battleship Force 2
United States. Navy. Officer Candidate School 2
United States. Navy. Surface Warfare Officers School 2
Abromitis, William, 1925-1975 1
Ahlgren, Charles 1
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, 1896-1983 1
Aldrich, Barbara Tanner 1
Almgren, Neal, 1915-1984 1
Amberg, Richard H. 1
Anderson, Bern, 1900-1963 1
Anderson, Henry H. 1
Andrea Doria (Steamship) 1
Atlanta (Protected cruiser) 1
Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914 1
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 1
Baruch, Bernard M., Jr., 1902-1992 1
Bates, Richard W., 1892-1973 1
Bauer, A. L. 1
Bauernschmidt, George W. (George William), 1899- 1
Belknap, George E. (George Eugene), 1832-1903 1
Belknap, Reginald Rowan, 1871-1959 1
Bennington (Aircraft carrier) 1
Bieri, Bernhard H. (Bernhard Henry), 1889-1971 1
Billingsley, Edward Baxter, 1910-1997 1
Bismarck (Battleship) 1
Bogart, Gerald S., 1914- 1
Bogart, Margaret Spruance, 1919-1996 1
Boyd, Carl 1
Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981 1
Braun, Boynton L. 1
Braun, Mary 1
Brett, Kenneth M. 1
Brown, Thomas 1
Brown, Winston S. 1
Brummel, Herbert L. 1
Buehler, Michael 1
Buell, Marilyn 1
Bull, Cornelius H. 1
Bunn, George, 1925- 1
Burd, George E. 1
Burgess, W. Starling (William Starling), 1878-1947 1
Burke, Thomas N. 1
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
Bywater, Hector C. (Hector Charles), 1884-1940 1
Caliandro, Peter J. 1
Campbell, Edward Hale 1
+ ∧ less