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United States. Navy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Captain William Joseph Belt collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0117
Abstract

Contents of this collection deal with Captain William Joseph Belt's experiences in United States Navy, 1811-1856.

Dates: 1811 - 1856

Carlton Dates correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2638
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence from Carlton Dates to his wife and daughter in Baltimore, Maryland while he was serving in the United States Navy during World War II. These letters yield a picture of the life of a Black serviceman and his family during the war.

Dates: 1941-1946, 1960

Dugan-Robison manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3263
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and other manuscript materials related to the Dugan and Robison families, circa 1786-1991.The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by Harriet Buchanan Dugan to her daughter Jane Mary Dugan Robison, as well as the papers of John Keeler Robison, an officer in the United States Navy and chief of the Navy's Bureau of Engineering.

Dates: 1786 - 1991

Figgins photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: PP 0027
Abstract

This collection contains photographs made or collected by Lt. Bernard W. Figgins, thought to have originated during his service in the United States Navy in World War I, depicting ships (Stockton, USS Von Steuben, Jason, USS Hopkins) and crews including African American sailors. There are a few images made in 1964-1970.

Dates: 1917-1970

Hammond James Dugan collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1859
Abstract

This collection pertains to Hammond James Dugan (1903-1933) who was a naval officer in the lighter-than-air program. Materials include correspondence, diplomas, newspaper clippings and documents about German dirigibles, handbooks and manuals, logs and journals as well as material related to the United States Naval Academy's class of 1924.

Dates: 1929-1951

John A. Courtney, 2nd Division, 1st Battalion, World War II collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3116
Abstract

This collection consists of personal histories, ephemera, and photographs of the members of the 2nd Division, 1st Battalion, 5th Naval District, U.S. Naval Reserve, who served in the Panama and the Pacific theater of World War II.

Dates: 1938 - 2004

Otto Stude manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3111
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and ephemera from the Stude family members, including German language correspondence and ephemera during the World Wars, business papers for the Otto Stude Grain Company in Baltimore, military records, postcards and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1863 - 1981

Reuben E. Stivers personal and naval correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2890
Abstract

The Stivers collection consists of twenty boxes of personal and navy correspondence written by Stivers, his colleagues, and family between 1913 and 1998. The Navy correspondence centers around Stivers' past service record and efforts made on the behalf of the Shenandoah Council. Personal correspondence includes annual Christmas letters, biographical information about Stivers, his friends, travel accounts, newspaper clippings, and correspondence concerning Stivers' publishing negotiations.

Dates: 1913-1998

Thomas Buchanan letter book

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0161
Abstract

This collection consists of letters of Lt. Comm. Thomas McKean Buchanan reporting the activities of U. S. Steamer "Calhoun" with fleet near new Orleans, including fighting to clear confederates from the Atchefalya River and to replace buoys and channel markers.

Dates: 1862

Wayne F. Hoffman journal

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3291
Abstract

This collection contains the journal of Wayne Franklin Hoffman, a seaman in the United States Navy during the Philippines campaign, World War II. Hoffman records his movements beginning with his enlistment in 1944 and ending in 1946, by which time he has resumed civilian life. The journal notably contains Hoffman's daily record of the U.S. invasion of Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines, as well as various naval engagements in the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa.

Dates: 1944 May 25-1946 August 25