03872cpcaa2200577 4500 mm 70050112 DLC 20260227111613.0 cr ||||||||||| 730514|||||||||||| eng mm 70050112 ms 68002073 DLC DLC dacs DLC R lcmd Sellers, David Foote, 1874-1949. David Foote Sellers papers, 1860-1949 (bulk 1927-1938). 6,500 items. 20 containers. 10 linear feet. Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Journal, Personal Logs, and Fitness Reports, 1894-1938; Series 2: Correspondence, 1896-1947; Series 3: Subject File, 1926-1929; Series 4: Miscellany, 1906-1949; Series 5: Photograph Albums, 1898-1934; and Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1860-1938. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, journals, notebooks, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to Sellers's naval career. Topics include his duty as cadet midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy; his service during the Spanish-American War, the Samoan campaign, Philippine Insurrection, and World War I; as naval aide to the White House; as aide to the commander of the German fleet (Kriegsmarine) visiting the United States; his service relating to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Calif. (1915); as commander of the Naval Training Station at San Diego, Calif.; as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy Special Service Squadron; as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy U.S. Fleet; and as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. Correspondence relates chiefly to his duty as commander of the U.S. Navy Special Service Squadron during the Nicaraguan uprising (1927-1929). Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Harry Alexander Baldridge, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harold W. Dodds, Helen Keller, and Dudley Wright Knox. Naval officer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011194 Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection. Adams, Charles Francis, 1866-1954 Correspondence. Baldridge, Harry Alexander, 1880-1952 Correspondence. Baldwin, Hanson Weightman, 1903-1991 Correspondence. Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 Correspondence. Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980 Correspondence. Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 Correspondence. Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960 Correspondence. Germany. Kriegsmarine. United States. Naval Training Station (San Diego, Calif.) United States. Navy Officers. United States. Navy. U.S. Fleet. United States. Navy. Special Service Squadron. United States Naval Academy. Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) Spanish-American War, 1898 Naval operations, American. World War, 1914-1918 Naval operations, American. Nicaragua History 1909-1937. Philippines History Philippine American War, 1899-1902. Samoa History. Naval officers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011194 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011194.3 39176 39176