Alfred Thayer Mahan papers (MSC 017)
Naval Historical Collection, U.S. Naval War College
686 Cushing RoadNewport, RI 02841-1207
Tel: 401-841-2435
email: nhc@usnwc.edu
Website: https://usnwcarchives.org/
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Acquisition: | The grandson of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Alfred T. Mahan, II, donated these materials to the Naval War College Foundation in 1971. Since then, this collection has been on indefinite loan to the Naval Historical Collection by the NWCF. |
| Custodial history: | These materials were retained by the Mahan family after Mahan's daughters donated the bulk of his papers to the Naval Historical Foundation Collection in the Library of Congress. |
| Processing information: | This collection was originally processed and described by Dr. John Hattendorf and Evelyn M. Cherpak in 1990. In the time following, portions of the collection were sent to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) for preservation and conservation treatment. While at NEDCC the collection was microfilmed and parts were cleaned, repaired, and housed into acid free folders and additional archival boxes. Following this work, the 1990 register was not updated.In 2019, Elizabeth Delmage reprocessed this collection to address the disparities between the 1990 register and the contents of the 8 boxes that comprised the collection. In most cases, the old box and folder numbers from the 1990 register can be found on the reserve side of the folders and in a note in the updated finding aid to assist researchers using superseded citations.This finding aid supersedes the "Register of the Alfred Thayer Mahan Papers, Compiled by John B. Hattendorf, D. Phil. Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, Manuscript Register Series, No. 15," 1990. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Delmage. |
| Encoding: | Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth Delmage, 2022 Nov 16. |
| Descriptive rules: | Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS). |
