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U.S. Naval-Panama and Caribbean Photograph Album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-20231118
Scope and Contents Album with Over 200 gelatin silver photographs of Panama (Colon, Cativa, Panama City, San Blas, Portobello), Puerto Rico (San Juan), and Cuba (Guantanamo) taken by a U.S. Navy Serviceman from the Aerial Squadron 51 during his time in the Caribbean, dating from 1939 to 1940. Focusing on Colon (Panama) and showing local night clubs (Silver Spray Casino and Atlantic Night Club), bars (Bilgray’s Tropical and Chinese Bars), theaters (“Native Theatre”), stores (Japanese and “Hon Chong” Chinese...
Dates: 1939 - 1940
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / U.S. Naval-Panama and Caribbean Photograph Album

Ruth M. McCabe WAVES Photograph Album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-202211008
Scope and Contents Photograph album documenting Ruth M. McCabe’s training and service in the United States Women's Naval Reserve (popularly known as WAVES). There are 372 photographs in total, dating from 1942-1945. The images primarily depict McCabe and other WAVES officers posing in uniforms and civilian clothes, as well as McCabe’s family and male servicemen.The photographs depict a number of locations, including Duluth, Minnesota; Stillwater, Oklahoma; Oklahoma City; Washington...
Dates: 1942 - 1945
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Ruth M. McCabe WAVES Photograph Album

Charles Lacey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS242
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Charles Lacey Papers consist of seven letters dated between 1809 and 1814 received by Charles Lacey, an American naval officer during the War of 1812. Lacey's cash book dating to 1809-1810, which he used as a midshipman on board the U.S.S. "John Adams," is also preserved in this collection. Although they comprise but eight folders, the Charles Lacey Papers document some interesting incidents during the War of 1812, especially its naval aspects. The correspondence in the Lacey Papers...
Dates: 1809 - 1814
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Charles Lacey Papers

Miles P. DuVal, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-761124
Scope and Contents Note The Miles P. DuVal, Jr. Papers comprise the personal papers of Miles P. DuVal (1896-1989), an American naval officer who was an expert on the Panama Canal. The bulk of the collection consists of files maintained by DuVal about the Panama Canal, including correspondence, subject files, and manuscripts. Many of the manuscripts were written by DuVal while some were written by other individuals. Some attention is given to DuVal's navy career. DuVal's journals are also present. The...
Dates: 1851 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1989
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Miles P. DuVal, Jr. Papers

Jack K. McFall Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS150
Scope and Contents note The Jack K. McFall Papers consist primarily of correspondence received from State Department colleagues on the occasions of McFall's various career appointments, notably his appointment as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations in 1949, and as U.S. minister and later ambassador to Finland, in 1952 and 1953, respectively. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Spruille Braden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert Humphrey, Thomas B. Inglis, Henry Cabot Lodge,...
Dates: 1925 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1956
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Jack K. McFall Papers

Jackson McElmell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS241
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Jackson McElmell Papers document the career of a naval officer who entered the U.S. Navy in 1855 and earned the rank of Rear Admiral in 1906. Jackson McElmell (1834-1908) assisted with the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable in 1857, was a member of the Paraguayan expedition of 1858, saw some action during the Civil War, and was President of the Naval Engineers' Examining Board in Philadelphia. Dating from 1851 to 1908, the McElmell Papers contain mostly correspondence and military...
Dates: 1851 - 1908
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Jackson McElmell Papers

Tonita Ridgway Martin Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS340
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Tonita Ridgway Martin Papers comprise the personal papers of longtime Georgetown resident Tonita Ridgway Martin along with some of her relatives' materials. Of note are a few documents relating to the life of New York Catholic Dominick Lynch I, whose will is included, and more documents relating to U.S. naval officer Dominick Lynch III, whose two brief but fascinating journals regarding Ecuador and Hawaii are retained. Also preserved is Tonita Ridgway Martin's personal collection of...
Dates: 1796 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1949
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Tonita Ridgway Martin Papers

Cuthbert Druitt papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS272
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The collection contains 13 letters written by Midshipman Cuthbert Druitt while he was stationed with the Royal Navy at Plymouth, England and Montreal, Canada. Also included is one letter written by Captain Cochran along with Druitt's Certificate of Health.

ABBREVIATIONS: ALS - Autograph Letter Signed

Dates: 1865-1867
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Cuthbert Druitt papers

Fitzhugh Green, Sr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS132
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Fitzhugh Green, Sr., Papers consist of Green's correspondence; diaries and notebooks; manuscripts (autograph and typed) to articles and prospective books; reprints of articles/papers; clippings from newspapers and magazines; and photographs including many negatives of family and a notable set of glass slides showing scenes from his Arctic travels. Most prominent are the series consisting of correspondence, scrapbooks, articles, notebooks and journals belonging to Green about the Crocker...
Dates: 1900-1947; Majority of material found within 1913-1935
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Fitzhugh Green, Sr. papers

Stephen and Susan Decatur papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS245
Collection-level Scope and Content Note Donated to Georgetown College by Susan Decatur, the widow of the War of 1812 naval hero Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), the Stephen and Susan Decatur Papers consist of one letter book containing letters dated from 1812 to 1813 written to Commodore Decatur congratulating him on the victory of the U.S.S. "United States" against the H.M.S. "Macedonian," two letters dated 1812 to him from U.S. Navy Secretary Paul Hamilton, and 16 letters to Susan Decatur dated between 1831 and 1845. Contained in...
Dates: 1812 - 1845
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Stephen and Susan Decatur papers

Pieter H. G. Verhoog Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS186
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The collection is oriented around Commodore Verhoog's special interest in Christopher Columbus, specifically, the latter's first landfall in the Caribbean Islands in 1492. Of interest, regarding the subject, is correspondence between Comm. Verhoog and Columbus scholars and naval historians such as K.W.L. Bezemer, Ludovic Kennedy, Carlos Sanz, E.M. Shilstone, P.V.H. Weems, and geologist Clifford Kaye. Also included are offprints of papers written by the foregoing about the Columbus landfall....
Dates: 1543 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1953
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Pieter H. G. Verhoog Papers

Fitzhugh Green, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS80
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Fitzhugh Green Papers consist primarily of the correspondence, work files and manuscripts pertaining to Green's various professional positions, writing, and social acquaintance. The collection was acquired in two parts, the second of which constitutes the Addendum series of this register.

Dates: 1902 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1989
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Fitzhugh Green, Jr. Papers

Harold Boyd Maris Papers

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Identifier: GTM-780301
Scope and Contents The Harold Boyd Maris papers comprise the personal papers of physicist Harold Boyd Maris, who worked in various research fields at the Naval Historical Research Lab in Anacostia, Virginia from 1925-1942. His own research, however, concentrated on the study of photo-elastic stress analysis. The papers include correspondence, experimental and expeditionary data and material, daybooks, logbooks, publications, reprints, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, and plates of a professional and...
Dates: 1927 - 1949
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Harold Boyd Maris Papers

George S. Smith Journal

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-100330
Scope and Contents Note Manuscript Journal of George S. Smith containing original verse, mathematical information, and an autobiography. The autobiography was written at several different places, notably Panama. The first part of the journal includes original verse and songs by Smith. The second part provides mathematical rules, arithmetic, and geometry. The third part comprises a lengthy autobiograhy of George S. Smith. In 1855, he traveled to Australia, China, and the Philippines. He later joined the U.S....
Dates: 1859 - 1865
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / George S. Smith Journal

Robert M. Weston Papers

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Identifier: GTM-770610
Scope and Contents The Robert M. Weston papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal briefs, documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning the legal career of Robert M. Weston (1910-1973). Weston was associated with the Tax and Antitrust Divisions of the Department of Justice from 1941 to 1952, president of the Public Utilities Commission from 1953 to 1956, a member of the Federal Power Commission from 1956 to 1968, Judge of the D.C. Tax Court from 1968 to 1971, and Associate Judge...
Dates: 1933 - 1973
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Robert M. Weston Papers

Joseph A. Mahon ARAMCO History Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS185
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 47 folders of material, primarily reports and typed commentaries/reviews authored or collected by ARAMCO executive Joseph A. Mahon, concerning ARAMCO administration and management, employee recruitment and training, community development, as well as oil production and the waterfront development of Ras Tanura. This collection, and particularly the interview transcript with Mr. Mahon (Folder 47), is part of the ARAMCO History Project, with Paul J. Nance as...
Dates: 1957 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1977
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Joseph A. Mahon ARAMCO History Project Collection

Paul R. Sullivan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-870923
Scope and Contents note The Paul Sullivan Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and related printed ephemera regarding Paul Sullivan's remarkable career. The papers are organized in six distinct groups, namely Correspondence, Subject File, Blue and Gray, High Latitudes, Personal, Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Series. The collection comprises 7.5 linear feet of material, and it is organization by series in five boxes with a total of two hundred and fifty four folders. While the Paul...
Dates: 1930 - 1961
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Paul R. Sullivan Papers

Edward Kavanagh Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS153
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Edward Kavanagh Collection consists primarily of copies of autograph signed letters by Edward Kavanagh to individuals to whom he offered legal counsel and to associates during his service as charge d'affaires in Lisbon. The correspondence is in the original letter copy book used by Kavanagh. Other material includes newsclippings of obituaries on Kavanagh; a letter from his biographer Charles W. Collins to the historian Martin Griffin; a black and white photograph of the Kavanagh family...
Dates: 1832 - 1909; Majority of material found within 1832 - 1837
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Edward Kavanagh Collection

Charles Daniel Drake Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS279
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Charles Daniel Drake Papers consist of scrapbooks containing articles about the early portion of Drake's political career and some of his literary writings. The collection is contained in 2 boxes (2.25 linear feet). The first scrapbook focuses on the political climate of the day during the early part of Drake's political career. Much coverage is given to the activities of the Whig party in and around St. Louis, Missouri. Of note are articles about the elections of 1840 and 1848 and...
Dates: 1828 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1849
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Charles Daniel Drake Papers

Robert L. Morris, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-090811
Scope and Contents Note The Robert L. Morris, Jr. Papers comprise an extensive collection of information about alleged spies in the 20th century and the early 21st century collected by Robert L. Morris, who became a CIA officer in 1955. A long series of name files provides information, mostly newspaper clippings, about specific alleged spies, including American, British, Russian, and international spies. Also preserved are numerous photographs of alleged spies. A run of country files provides data on spies in...
Dates: 1918 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1945 - 2000
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Robert L. Morris, Jr. Collection

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