Washington Irving Chambers papers

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Washington Irving Chambers papers

Correspondence, memoranda, logbooks, subject files, printed matter, blueprints, photographs, and other papers relating to Chambers's service in the U.S. Navy and with the Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic in 1884 and the Nicaragua Canal survey expedition of 1884-1885. Documents his service aboard the USS Pensacola (Screw steamer) and USS Portsmouth (Sloop of war) as well as at the Naval War College (U.S.), New York Naval Shipyard, United States Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, R.I), U.S. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation, U.S. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance, and other Navy Dept. offices. Subjects include the development and application of aviation to naval forces, flight science and procedures, balloons, dirigibles, helicopters, parachutes, ordnance, and ship construction. Correspondents include Thomas S. Baldwin, W. Starling Burgess, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Theodore Gordon Ellyson, Eugene Ely, Louis Godard, Roy Knabenshue, Grover Loening, Glenn L. Martin, James Means, Holden Chester Richardson, John Rodgers, and John H. Towers.

Language
English
Pages
12000

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Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1954-1969.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer.

Collection material in English.

Described in: Washington Irving Chambers: a register of his papers in the Library of Congress (1967).

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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Pagination
12,000 48 12
Number of pages
12000

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OL25125305M
LCCN
70050799

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