04867cpcaa2200841 a 4500 mm 70050799 DLC 20260227111613.0 cr ||||||||||| 730514|||||||||||| eng mm 70050799 ms 67000592 DLC dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934. Washington Irving Chambers papers, 1871-1943 (bulk 1911-1919). 12,000 items. 48 containers. 12 linear feet. Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Official Correspondence, 1871-1934; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1874-1943; Series 3: Subject File, 1884-1917; Series 4: Aircraft Logbooks, 1911-1917; Series 5: Naval Logbooks, Notebooks, Journals, and Order Books, 1872-1909; Series 6: Miscellany, 1884-1932. Open to research. 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. 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 Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011189 Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection. Baldwin, Thomas S. Correspondence. Burgess, W. Starling (William Starling), 1878-1947 Correspondence. Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 Correspondence. Ellyson, Theodore Gordon, 1885-1928 Correspondence. Ely, Eugene Correspondence. Godard, Louis, 1847-1928 Correspondence. Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Knabenshue, Roy, -1960 Correspondence. Loening, Grover, 1888-1976 Correspondence. Martin, Glenn L. (Glenn Luther), 1886-1955 Correspondence. Means, James, 1853-1920 Correspondence. Richardson, Holden Chester, 1878- Correspondence. Rodgers, John, 1881-1926 Correspondence. Towers, John H. (John Henry), 1885-1955 Correspondence. United States. Navy Aviation. United States. Navy Department. United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Navigation. United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance. Naval War College (U.S.) New York Naval Shipyard. Pensacola (Screw steamer) Portsmouth (Sloop of war) United States Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, R.I) Greely Relief Expedition (1884) Aeronautics. Airships. Balloons. Canals Nicaragua. Flight. Fortification Rhode Island. Helicopters. Naval aviation United States. Navy-yards and naval stations New York (State) New York. Navy-yards and naval stations Rhode Island Newport. Ordnance, Naval. Parachutes. Shipbuilding. Arctic regions Discovery and exploration. Nicaragua Discovery and exploration. Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua) Naval officers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011189 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011189.3 39177 39177