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040			_aDLC _edacs _cDLC _dDLC
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100	1		_aChambers, Washington Irving, _d1856-1934.
245	0	0	_aWashington Irving Chambers papers, _f1871-1943 _g(bulk 1911-1919).
300			_a12,000 _fitems.
300			_a48 _fcontainers.
300			_a12 _flinear feet.
351			_aArranged 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.
506	0		_aOpen to research.
520	8		_aCorrespondence, 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.
545	0		_aNaval officer.
546			_aCollection material in English.
555	8		_aDescribed in: Washington Irving Chambers: a register of his papers in the Library of Congress (1967).
555	8		_aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011189
580			_aForms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.
600	1	0	_aBaldwin, Thomas S. _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aBurgess, W. Starling _q(William Starling), _d1878-1947 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aCurtiss, Glenn Hammond, _d1878-1930 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aEllyson, Theodore Gordon, _d1885-1928 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aEly, Eugene _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aGodard, Louis, _d1847-1928 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aGreely, A. W. _q(Adolphus Washington), _d1844-1935.
600	1	0	_aKnabenshue, Roy, _d-1960 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aLoening, Grover, _d1888-1976 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aMartin, Glenn L. _q(Glenn Luther), _d1886-1955 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aMeans, James, _d1853-1920 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aRichardson, Holden Chester, _d1878- _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aRodgers, John, _d1881-1926 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aTowers, John H. _q(John Henry), _d1885-1955 _vCorrespondence.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNavy _xAviation.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNavy Department.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNavy Department. _bBureau of Navigation.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNavy Department. _bBureau of Ordnance.
610	2	0	_aNaval War College (U.S.)
610	2	0	_aNew York Naval Shipyard.
610	2	0	_aPensacola (Screw steamer)
610	2	0	_aPortsmouth (Sloop of war)
610	2	0	_aUnited States Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, R.I)
611	2	0	_aGreely Relief Expedition _d(1884)
650		0	_aAeronautics.
650		0	_aAirships.
650		0	_aBalloons.
650		0	_aCanals _zNicaragua.
650		0	_aFlight.
650		0	_aFortification _zRhode Island.
650		0	_aHelicopters.
650		0	_aNaval aviation _zUnited States.
650		0	_aNavy-yards and naval stations _zNew York (State) _zNew York.
650		0	_aNavy-yards and naval stations _zRhode Island _zNewport.
650		0	_aOrdnance, Naval.
650		0	_aParachutes.
650		0	_aShipbuilding.
651		0	_aArctic regions _xDiscovery and exploration.
651		0	_aNicaragua _xDiscovery and exploration.
651		0	_aNicaragua Canal (Nicaragua)
656		7	_aNaval officers. _2itoamc
856	4		_3Finding aid _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011189
856	4		_3Finding aid (PDF) _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011189.3
999			_c39177 _d39177