Naval History and Heritage Command
Personal Papers & Donated Collections
Personal papers collections and donated collections are those that fall outside of the definition of operational records. Operational records are official records of the U. S., created by offices within the Department of the Navy, and typically transferred directly by the creating office to the Navy Archives. Personal papers and donated collections document the history of the U. S. Navy and have typically been donated to the Navy Archives by private citizens or organizations. While these collections may contain materials created by Navy personnel in the course of their work, the materials are not considered official or operational records of the U. S. Navy.
Please note: the collections listed here are only a portion of the personal papers collections and donated collections maintained at the Navy Archives.
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: A
Abbott, Thomas R. Papers, 1991-1994
Ainsworth, Walden L. Papers, 1936-1951
Alden, John D. Papers, 1973-1977
Alexander, George A. Papers, 1902-1969
Allen, Ernest Papers, 1928-1948
Allen, John G. Papers, 1899-1970
Alsmeyer, Marie Bennett Papers, 1943-1987
Anderson, John D. Papers, 1942-1948
Anderson, Walter Stratton Papers, 1895-1975
Applied Physics Laboratory 1942-1956
Artz, Doris M. Papers, 1929-1950
Artz, William J. Papers, 1909-1956
Astor, Gerald Papers, 1993-1995
Aurand, Evan P. Papers, 1962-1972
Austin, Bernard L. Papers, 1943-1967
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: B
Baciocco, Albert J. Papers, 1976-1987
Badger, Oscar C. Papers, 1948-1970
Baker, Arthur David III Papers, 1953-1987
Baldwin, John A., Jr. Papers, 1975-1989
Banister, Alan B. Papers, 1944
Barash, Samuel T., 1944-1945
Barbey, Daniel E. Papers, 1941-1969
Bard, Ralph A. Papers, 1941-1944
Barnes, Lawrence Papers, 1967-1970
Bartlett, Bradford Papers, 1907-1952
Beakley, Wallace M. Papers, 1942-1964
Beaman, Ronald F. Papers, 1945-1946
Behr, Esther N. Papers, 1917-1926
Behringer, Robert E. Papers, 1971-1988
Bell, Curtis R. Papers, 1938-1961
Bellinger, Patrick N. L. Papers, 1903-1961
Bemis, Harold M. Papers, 1900-2008
Bennett, Frank M. Papers, 1879-1921
Blackford, William M. Papers, 1937-1945
Blankenbaker, Marjorie L. Papers, 1943-1944
Boone, Alfred D. Papers, 1916-1972
Booz, Allen, and Hamilton Inc. 1946-1973
Bowen, Harold G. Jr. Papers, 1929-1974
Bracken, John P. Papers, 1941-1991
Brantman, Richard H. Papers, 1941-1995
Breuer, William B. Papers, 1929-1988
Brewton, John C. Papers, 1966-1990
Bringle, William F. Papers, 1967-1970
Bromer, Edgar J. Papers, 1943-1945
Brooks, Roland Papers, 1943-1960
Brown, Lois P. Papers, 1951-1954
Brownson, Willard H. Papers, 1864-1932
Bulkeley, John Family Papers, 1942-1945
Burke, Arleigh A. & Roberta Gorsuch Papers, 1920-1951
Burke, Arleigh A. Papers, 1940s-1990s
Burnham, Ruth D. Scrapbook, 1942-1945
Burns, Robert L. Papers, 1935-1945
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: C
Cagle, Malcolm W. & Frank A. Manson Papers, 1947-1956
Cambell, Dennis R. F. Papers, 1942, 1950s
Cannon, Emma Colebourn Papers, 1893-1922
Carbajal, Salvador R. Papers, 1937-1983
Cash, John C. Papers, 1941-1944
Chadwick, French E. Papers, 1880-1918
Charters, Lloyd S. Papers, 1917-1972
Cherry, John Myrick Papers, 1945
China Repository, 1908-1990
Coale, Griffith B. Papers, 1943-1944
Cochrane, Edward L. Papers, 1914-1960
Coggins, Cecil H. Papers, 1927-1943
Cohn, Mitchell Papers, 1940-1942
Colbert, William C. Papers, 1912-1943
Cook, Charles O. Papers, 1966
Cooley, Wayne D. Papers, 1932-1973
Cooper, Charles W. Papers, 1943-1946
Cotton, Charles S. Family Papers, 1862-1964
Cowart, Virgil A. Papers, 1921-1975
Cowley, Harry L. Papers, 1942-1945
Cramer, Ambrose C. Papers, 1917-1919
Crawford, Michael J. Papers, 1967-2017
Crosley, Paul C. Papers, 1915-1977
Crosley, Paul Papers, 1918-1979
Cummings, Damon E. Papers, 1908-1947
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: D
Daniel, Henry C. Papers, 1918-1988
Daniel, John C. Papers, 1951-1953
Davidson, Chester R. Papers, 1930-1963
Davis, Roy W. Papers, 1906-1919
Delany, Walter S. Papers, 1912-1981
Delano, Francis H. Papers, 1867-1930
Denfeld, Louis E. Papers, 1945-1949
Denny, Elizabeth S. Papers, 1944-1973
Department of Defense Reorganization, 1937-1975
Dessez, Eunice C. Papers, 1917-1956
Dewey, George Papers, 1893-1942
Dingwell, John E. Papers, 1933-1959
Dobson, Cleo J. Papers, 1941-1945
Donovan, Ralph H. Papers, 1919-1989
Doughty, Levi G. Papers, 1927-1995
Dreller, Louis Papers, 1929-1959
Dunn, Lynne Papers, 1942-1989
Durgin, Calvin T. Papers, 1942-1951
Dutton, Benjamin, Jr. Papers, 1905-1909
Dutton, Benson L. Papers, 1928-1991
DuVal, Miles P. Papers, 1939-1949
Dyer, George C. Papers, 1939-1950
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: E
Eads, Allen L. Papers, 1936-1984
Early and Pioneer Naval Aviator's Association Golden Eagles Chronology
Eckelmeyer, Edward H., Jr. Papers, 1923-1966
Edmundson, Darwin Papers, 1943-1945
Edwards, John R. Papers, 1929-1959
Eller, Ernest M. Papers, 1958-1970
Ellyson, Theodore G. Papers, 1918-1928
English, Robert A. J. Papers, 1939-1946
Evans, Joseph S. Papers, 1968
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: F
Farnum, Charles G. Papers, 1972
Farnum, Walter W. Papers, 1907-1965
Ferguson, John Papers, 1843-1869
Field, Wells Papers, 1867-1922
Fisher, Alvan Papers, 1944-1945
Fitzgerald, John A. Papers, 1943-1945
Forrestal, James V. Papers, 1934-1951
Foster, Paul F. Papers, 1914-1926
French Translations Collection
From the Sea: Working Papers and Drafts
Frost, Laurence H. Papers, 1926-1964
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: G
Galantin, Ignatius J. Papers, 1932-1997
Galloway, Calvin Papers, 1931-1932
Gardner, Matthew D. Papers, 1951
Gary, Donald A. Papers, 1920-1970
Gayle, Rose V. Papers, 1964-1973
George, Flave J. Papers, 1942-1945
Gill, Charles C. Papers, 1915-1929
Gillis, James H. Papers, 1770-1859
Gonzales, Catalino Papers, 1928-1950
Gralla, Arthur R. Papers, 1961-1966
Grant, John S. Papers, 1944-1945
Gray, Charles W. Papers, 1924-1953
Gray, Nelson A. Papers, 1944-1945
Graybar, Lloyd J. Papers, 1941-1995
Greer, James A. Papers, 1848-1930
Griffin, Samuel P. Papers, 1841-1887
Guitteau, Joanne P. Papers, 1943-1944
Gurll, Francis D. Papers, 1942-1954
Gurnett, Lloyd A. Papers, 1944-1979
Guyol, Louise H. Papers, 1881-1960
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: H
Hadley, Daisy M. Papers, 1974-1993
Hamlin, Harold S. Papers, 1945-1960
Hammel, Eric M. Papers, 1942-1980
Hancock, Joy Bright Papers, 1980-1984
Hansen, Oskar J. W. Papers, 1953-1969
Harding, Jeremiah Family Papers, 1864-1947
Harkins, Daniel J. Papers, 1939-1958
Harris, Harriet A. Papers, 1918-1958
Hart, Stanley D. Papers, 1912-1929
Hart, Thomas C. Papers, 1899-1960
Haugen, Zelma Papers, 1945-1970
Hayden, Joseph Clark Papers, 1941-1945
Hayward, John T. Papers, 1942-1943
Hazard, Roberta L. Papers, 1970-1992
Hebel, Jean Papers, 1940-1980
Hedges, David T. Papers, 1943
Hein, John A. Papers, 1936-1957
Heineman, Paul R. Papers, 1940-1945
Herrick, John J. Papers, 1964-1997
Herriott, John A. Papers, 1966-1972
Hewitt, Henry Kent Papers, 1907-1977
Higgins, John M. Papers, 1940-1961
Hill, Harry W. Papers, 1942-1950
Hobbs, Robert A. Papers, 1941-1976
Hoffman, Charles M. E. Papers, 1943
Hoisington, L. E. Papers, 1942-1963
Holloway, James L. III Papers, 1939-2010
Hone, Thomas C. Papers, 2001-2002
Hovenden, Herbert C. Papers, ca. 1917
Howell, Glenn F. Papers, 1913-1971
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: I
Ingersoll, Royal E. Papers, 1936-1970s
Irvine, Donald G. Papers, 1933-1969
Ismay, Arthur P. Papers, 1965-1966
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: J
Jacobson, Jacob H. Papers, 1920s-1940s
Jenkins, Joseph H. Papers, 1860s
Johnson, Alfred W. Papers, 1918-1967
Johnson, Lloyd O. Papers, 1928-1983
Johnson, Madeline K. Papers, 1918-1985
Jones, Ray S. Papers, 1917-1987
Jorgenson, John H. Papers, 1941-1969
Joy, C. Turner Papers, 1950s
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: K
Kadolph, Darnell W. Papers, 1942-1945, 1963-1968
Kane, John D. Papers, 1953-1986
Keithly, Roger M. Papers, 1950-1960
Kelso, Frank B. Scrapbooks, 1986-1994
Kemble, John H. Papers, 1942-1945
Kidd, John M. Papers, 1932-1954
Kilpatrick, Walter K. Papers, 1943-1945
Kimmel, Husband E. Papers, 1943, 1966-1967
King, Ernest J. Papers, 1941-1945
Kinkaid, Thomas C. Papers, 1908-1974
Kinsey, Margaret Combs Papers, 1942-1953
Kittredge, Tracy B. Papers, 1939-1945
Klemm, V. P. Papers, 1975-1977
Knerr, Hugh S. Papers, 1908-1978
Knox, W. Franklin Papers, 1939-1944
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: L
Laird, Horace C., Jr. Papers, 1934-1955
Lalor, William G. Papers
Larsen, William Papers, 1943-1945, 1965, 1984, 1990
Lattu, Onnie P. Papers, 1954-1995
Layton, Edwin T. Papers, ca. 1945
Leahy, William D. Papers, 1875-1959
Leary, H. F. Papers, 1909-1939
LeBaron, Walter & Pearle Family Papers, 1939-1978
Leggett, Wilson D., Jr. Papers, 1920-1955
Lehman, John F., Papers, 1973-1987
Leonhardt, Elisabeth Papers, 1909-1926
Leopold, Richard Papers, 1943-1945 and 1989
Leverton, Joseph W., Jr. Papers, 1930-1995
Levi, Charles A. Papers, 1944-1949
Lewis, James M. Papers, 1915-1965
Litchfield, Electus D. & William S. Cox Papers, 1904-1952
Little, Silas Papers, 1931-1945
Lockwood, Harris C. Papers, 1932-1973
Loebel, Goerge A. Papers, 1902-1931
Loktu, Dorothy Papers, 1943-1966
Long, Edward John Papers, 1938-1951
Lovejoy, Ralph L. Papers, 1919-1946
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: M
Maher, Arthur L. Papers, 1926-1984
Manuel, Edward Papers
Maps & Charts Collection
Matthews, Mitchell D. Papers, 1928-1977
Maury, John M., Jr. Papers, 1944-1945
Maxon, Frank O. Papers, 1901-1903
McBlair, William Papers, 1827-1857
McCaffree, Burnham C. Papers, 1926-1997
McConaha, Jessie Papers, 1909-1912
McCorkle, Francis D. Papers, 1945-1956
McCormick, William M. Papers, 1912-1984
McEachern, Shanks Papers, 1951-1970
McKechnie, Arnold W. Papers, 1954-1961
McKee, Andrew I. Papers, 1929-1943
McNamara, James Papers, ca. 1942-1945
Mesaros, Pauline D. Papers, 1941-1952
Michael, Edgar P. Papers, 1940-1943
Middendorf, J. William Papers, 1777-1865 (Reproductions)
Miller, Harold B. "Min" Papers, 1915-1990
Miller, Henry L. Papers, 1942-1971
Mitscher, Marc A. Papers, 1917-1951
Molten, Robert P., Jr. Papers, 1911-1940
Momsen, Charles B. Papers, 1927-1953
Moran, Thomas Papers, 1939
Morin, Joseph E. A. Papers, 1929, 1943-1968
Morison, Samuel E. Papers, 1911-1969
Morkus, Florence Papers, 1943
Morris, Robert M. Family Papers, 1994
Mudge, John E. Papers, 1943
Mugalian, Robert H. Papers, 1944-1945
Mustin, Lloyd M. Papers, 1950s-1980s
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: N
National Yeomen (F) Collection, 1906-1991
Needham, William O. Papers, 1930-1988
Neely, John C. Papers, 1944-1992
Nestegard, Dorothy Mae Papers, 1945
Nielson, Joseph L. Papers, 1911-1932
Nikkonen, Rudolph Papers, 1930s-1950s
Nimitz, Chester W. Papers, 1901-1967
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: O
Ofstie, Ralph A. Papers, 1942-1955
Oliver, Robert J. Papers, 1950-1951
Olsen, C. E. Papers, 1941-1952
O'Neill, Helen G. Papers, 1971-1975
Orleck Joseph Family Papers, 1928-1953
Orr, Glenn R. Papers, 1919
Osborn, Philip R. Papers, 1947-1956
Osburn, Carl Townsend Papers, 1903-1964
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: P
Packard, Wyman Papers, 1944-1945
Panarace, Vincent Papers, 1942-1946
Parsons, William S. Papers, 1943-1952
Patterson, Charles R. Papers, 1935-1936
Paul, C. Gloria Papers, 1954
Pawer, Jacob Papers, 1944-2000
Pelatowski, Frank V. Papers, 1923-1960
Perry, Glen C. H. Papers, 1943-1989
Perry, Roger E. Papers, 1943-1946
Phelps, William W. Papers, 1885-1938 and 2001-2005
Pierson, Margaret Beasley Papers, 1942-1952
Pineau, Roger Papers, 1945-1977
Plummer, John E. Papers, 1943-1958
Poe, Bryce II Papers, 1947-1998
Pollock, Thomas F. Papers, 1963-1975
Post, William S., Jr. Papers, 1958-1966
Potter, E. B. Papers, 1958-1968
Powell, Paulus P. Papers, 1915-1962
Pratt, William V. Papers, 1895-1962
Preble, Edward Family Papers, 1810, 1864, 1882-1971
Prichard, James A. Papers, 1950-1985
Puleston, William D. Papers, 1932-1945
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: R
Radamaker, George L. Papers, 1941-1945
Radford, Arthur W. Papers, 1932-1959
Ragsdale, Edmund M. Papers, 1942-1966
Ramsey, Dewitt C. Papers, 1912-1957
Ramsey, Logan C. Papers, 1942
Reid, Eugene G. Papers, 1943-1945
Rembert, John R. Papers, 1952
Retin, Richard & USS Canopus Association Papers, 1946-2009
Reynolds, Roger B. Papers, 1942-1953
Rhame, L. Richard & National Association of LCS(L)(3) Papers, 1943-2000
Richardson, Holden C. Papers, 1911- ca. 1950
Rivero, Horacio H. Papers, 1945-1972
Rosendahl, Charles E. Papers, 1969-1970
Rubb, Douglas C. Papers, 1940-1945
Ruhge, Glenn Papers
Russell, James S. Papers, 1969
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: S
Sabin, Lorenzo S. Papers, 1954-1967
Sallee, Ralph W. Papers, 1944-2006
Sams, William D. Papers, 1928-1937 and 1955
Sanford, George A. Papers, 1937-1945
Sardella, Rita C. Papers, 1944-1945
Saveker, David Richard Papers, 1941-1980
Scherf, Joseph Papers, 1907-1933
Settle, Thomas G. Papers, 1945-1964
Shepard, Alan B., Jr. & Mercury 3 Papers, 1959-1961
Showers, John W. Papers, 1923-1940
Sideman, Sidney Papers, 1944-1950
Silk, Frances Papers, 1945-1968
Silkworth, William Duncan II Papers, 1944-1945
Smith, Allen E. Papers, 1950-1968
Smith, Scott M. Papers, 1945-1951
Speedwell, Albert F. Papers, 1916-1941
Speiss, Fred H. Papers, 1917-1919 and 1991
Squires, Vernon C. Papers, 1942-1949
Stafford, Marion B. Papers, 1941-1970
Stark, Harold R. Papers, 1813-1981
Stone, Eugene Potter Papers, 1875-1915
Strean, Bernard Papers, 1964-1965
Stroder, Thomas E. Papers, 1943-1945
Strott, George G. Papers, 1917-1920
Sukowitz, Samuel S. Papers, 1942-1944
Sullivan, John J. Jr., Papers, 1941-1957
Sullivan Brothers Papers, 1948 and 1992
Swent, Langan W. Papers, 1941-1944
Sylva, John Papers, 1957-1972
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: T
Taylor, John McNay Papers, 1911-1967
Thomas, Marge Shields Papers, 1944-1945
Thomson, Earl W. Papers, 1943-1945
Todd, Chapman C. Papers, 1968
Toepel, Jewel D. Papers, 1940s
Tolley, Kemp Papers, 1924-1967
Turner, Richmond Kelly Papers, 1885-1961
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: U
Underbrink, Robert L. Papers, 1944-1969
Untermeyer, Marguerite G. Papers, 1941-1945
USS MEMPHIS Survivors Association Records
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: V
Valentine, Harold Papers, 1990s
Veeder, Ten Eyck De Witt Papers, 1854-1923
Veth, Kenneth L. Papers, 1941-1947
Von Wantoch, Jordine Papers, 1970-1989
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: W
Ward, Stanley A. Papers, 1895-1972
Watkins, James D. Papers, 1979-1986
WAVES Collection
Weadick, Thomas F. Papers, 1943-1945
Wiedefeld, Henry Papers, 1944-1946
Wilde, Louise K. Papers, 1942-1979
Williams, James W. Papers, 1980s-1994
Williams, William D. Papers,
Williamson, Lew "Woody" Papers, 1939-1992
Williford, Virgnia C. Papers, 1944-1945
Willis, Paul A. Papers, 1936-1996
Wilson, Eugene E. Papers, 1904-1970
Wilson, G. P. Papers,
Wilson, Henry B. Papers, 1917-1934
Winkler, David F. Papers, 1945-2000
Woeber, Chester Papers, 1914
Wood, Spencer S. Papers, 1882-1940
Woodward, Clark H. Papers, 1915-1968
Wright, Carlton H. Papers, 1970
Wright, James Papers, 1940-1951
Wright, Jerauld Papers, 1945-1950
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: Y
Yarnell, Harry E. Papers, 1879-1960
Yeatman, Philip W. Papers, 1898-1936
Young, Richard E. Papers, 1943-1961
Personal Papers & Donated Collections: Z
Zachary, Dan Papers, 1945-1946
Zimmerman, Alfred G. Papers, 1905-1960
