Various locations: 1863-1867. Unbound. Four letters and one stereoview. The first two letters are from Cooper to his family, one of which cautions against allowing a younger brother to become prey to full-grown seamen by joining the navy. The third is a manuscript copy of an official letter (with secretarial... More
Austria, Ceylon, China, Egypt, England, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Peru, Samoa, South Africa, Spain, United States, and at sea: 1880-1890. Loose-leaf binder. The archive consists of 89 letters with over 300 pages. It also includes eight pieces of ephemera from his later life. All... More
[Fort Trumbell], New London, Connecticut: 1945-1964. Unbound. This grouping consists of material belonging to E. F. King who worked at the U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory from World War II until the 1960s. It includes the last newspaper-magazine published by the BuShips Field Engineering Group in 1945, a tongue-in-cheek award... More
USS Congress, off Montevideo (Uruguay),Brazil Station: 1853. Unbound. This four-page letter from Midshipman Washington Totten, dated April 25 1853, was sent while he was assigned to the USS Congress off the coast of Montevideo, Uruguay. It is enclosed in an envelope addressed to [William] Gaston Pearson in care of a.... More
