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Navy WavesABAA

Official Signed Letter Thanking the Women of the Navy WAVES for "Accepting the Highest Responsibility in Service of their Country" with 6 Photos

14796The Navy WAVES Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service were established in response to the need for additional military personnel during World War II. From the very beginning the WAVES were groundbreaking given that they allowed women to serve within an official part of the Navy and its members held the same rank and ratings as male personnel as well as earning equal pay. 1 page Typed Letter Signed and dated December 1944 on Office of Naval Procurement Letterhead and addressed to the mother of an active Navy WAVES officer praising her daughter's heroism and dedication. The letter comes with a collection of 6 vintage black and white photographs in assorted sized of Navy WAVES women from the USS Hunter in uniform spending social time together off duty and posed together proudly. A testament to one of the first fields of labor where women gained equality. one TLS dated 1944 and 6 B&W photos of the Navy WAVES of the USS Hunt. The letter reads in full "Dear Mrs. CadmanYou have the right to be very proud of what your daughter has done in speeding our recent offensive ever closer to the heart of Germany and Japan. Behind each exciting headline these days you are measuring the contribution your daughter is making.You have the right to let the world know you are proud of her.Our Nation's leaders are proud too. President Roosevelt said 'The WAVES have proved they are capable of accepting the highest responsibility in service of their country. On behalf of a grateful nation I offer a hearty well done.' Admiral King added 'You who are members of the Women's Reserve have won the respect of the naval service by your acceptance of military requirements readiness for responsbility and already valuable contribution to the work of winning this war. You will share the gratitude of a nation when victory is ours.'Because by meeting the challenges of life in service your daughter is developing new maturity dependability and confidence.Because by keeping before her the standards of conduct learned at home and in her church she has contributed to the excellent reputation for which the WAVES are known across America.I am enclosing a display piece for you to place in your window. It is designed to let the rest of America know that a member of your family is serving her country in the WAVES. I know you will display it proudly." It is then signed boldly by the USNR Ensign "Barbara C. Bloom." The members of the WAVES were leaders in obtaining workplace equality in and beyond the military given their access to the same titles and pay as their male counterparts. While WAVES could not serve aboard combat ships or aircraft and they were authorized to serve in certain overseas U.S. possessions and a number were sent to Hawaii. At the end of WWII there were well over 8000 female officers and some ten times that many enlisted WAVES about 2-1/2 percent of the Navy's total strength. In some places WAVES constituted a majority of the uniformed Naval personnel. And many remained in uniform to help get the Navy into and through the post-war era. The 6 photographs are in assorted sizes ranging from wallet to 8'x9" with minor foxing and wear on edges. Large official photograph of women in uniform is inscribed on the back in period hand with the names of the women. The letter is an amazing testament to the ordinary women who helped make extraordinary strides for women's equality across the world. With docket holes at the top of the page that do not disrupt text. Letter is in very good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis125,00 $US≈ 105,76 €

Navy logbook WWIABAA

WWI US Navy Sailor Handwritten logbook Records Armistice Day and Includes an original mimeograph of the armistice announcement

16711Handwritten logbook from a US sailor serving aboard the U.S.S. Buffalo during WWI including his experience of Armistice Day. 1918. Original cloth boards. 7 x 4 in. Hand-drawn illustration of sailor with a paintbrush in hand on front cover. 184 pages. Unpaginated. Clippings notes and drawings from Samuel F. Rolph's time spent abroad in the navy during WWI including many cartoons about military life. "Just little clippings and sketches picked up here and there and put in here to look back on some day and think of the days spent on the water. SFRolph. 1918." Below is a newspaper clipping about the owner of the logbook dated 9-13-18 "Henry D. Rolph and Samuel F. Rolph who are not in the radio section of the navy are now overseas." Towards the end of the book is a notable entry from Armistice Day November 11 1918. "We were all excited and wondering who would get the honor of copying the "dope" about the signing of the armistice. All were willing to stand over our watch a little while. Here copied it. 1pm. I was at chow. When I cam back I copied a little regarding it also. All the whistles bells horns in the harbor were going full blast and I thought tot myself that must have been the way they all felt when old Liberty Bell was rung in 1776. It certainly was impressive even amid the chaos. For it meant a great deal." Includes an original mimeograph of the armistice announcement and an invitation for a celebratory "Exchange Committee" with allied British forces in Gibraltar. "Great celebration ashore. Parades. Governor spoke.Greatest crowds that ever were in Gibraltar." Several menus included along with 1918 Thanksgiving Day dinner menu for sailors on his ship: Tomato soup turkey potatoes mixed nuts and lemonade. A handwritten book filled with unique mementos from a WWI-era sailor in the US Navy. Soiling to cover as this was carried by a sailor on active duty. Light foxing and discoloration to pages. Very good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis1 200,00 $US≈ 1 015,32 €

Navy Department Dickerson MahlonABAA

Autograph Letter Signed "Secy. Mahlon Dickerson" to Nicholas Biddle President of the Bank of the United States responding to Biddle's proposal to make funds available for Navy Pensions

1837256446Washington D.C. 1837. 1-1/2 pages pen and ink on paper. Folio. Old folds else fine. 1-1/2 pages pen and ink on paper. Folio. A PROPOSAL TO FUND NAVY PENSIONS. A chronicle of the short-lived Bank of the United States and its continued involvement in US Navy pensions. After the demise of the Second Bank of the United States in 1836 a result of the historical "Bank War" between US President Andrew Jackson and Bank President Nicholas Biddle Biddle attempted to resuscitate the institution as a commercial bank chartered by the State of Pennsylvania. The former bank's stock holders except the US government voted to transfer the old bank's assets and liabilities to the new bank which made it difficult to disentangle the dealings of the defunct bank with the newly state-chartered bank. This letter from Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson discusses arrangements for The Bank of the United States to fund Navy Pensions and is an example of it's continued involvement with the US Government after the Second Bank of the United States charter had expired. Reading in part: "I have received your letter of the 19th inst. and agree to the arrangement you propose that for the funds you may place at the disposal of this department for the payment of Navy Pensions credit shall be given on the Bond from the Bank of the United States chartered by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to the United States." Written at the onset of the Panic of 1837 Biddle would fail to replicate the success he experienced as President of the Second Bank of the United States and resigned as President in 1839. The Bank of the Unites States failed in 1841. Biddle faced financial ruin and was arrested for fraud but was acquitted before his death in 1844. Born in Hanover Township New Jersey Mahlon Dickerson 1770-1853 was a cavalry veteran of the Whiskey Rebellion who would go on to be elected Governor of New Jersey serve as US Senator receive two appointments as Secretary of the Navy and be confirmed as a judge for the United States District Court of New Jersey. unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Navy PhotosABAA

Archive of 53 Original Photographs c. 1921-1923 from Servicemen at Scapa Floe and the Honda Point Disaster--Biggest Peacetime Disaster in Navy History

1595953 original silver gelatin print photographs. c. 1921-1923. Mostly 3"x5" with a few 2"x"3 inches. Loose. Original vernacular photographs most likely taken by one or more servicemen in the U.S. Navy. While many of the photographs show battleships on exercises and fellow sailors on deck including some African American servicemen at least 9 bear firsthand witness to the infamous Honda Point disaster of the coast of Santa Barbara in 1923. More photographs from the group may be the ships involved before disaster struck. At least 4 additional photographs show the famous scuttling of German destroyers at Scapa Floe which occurred after peace was declared in 1921. The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8 1923 seven Clemson class destroyers while traveling at 20 knots 37 km/h ran aground at Honda Point a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the coast in Santa Barbara County California. Two other ships grounded but were able to maneuver free off the rocks. Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster. Much study has been directed at determining the causes of such a terrible accident. Most likely the cause was a combination of heavy seas possibly caused by an earthquake in Japan darkness fog and the mistrust of the leadership on board the leading destroyer Delphy for the new radio navigation system preferring instead to use outdated estimation-based navigational methods. Although the Delphy immediately sounded her alarm after running aground the remainder of the squadrom was tragically traveling too close and one ship after another became entangled in the rocks. The photographs show from many views the various ships involved in the accident either listing heavily on rocks or sinking. Some of them can be identified as the U.S.S. S.P. Lee the Pervical the Nicholas the Woodbury the Chauncy and the leading ship Delphy. Most of the photos are taken very close by clearly from on board another ship perilously close to the disaster and most likely one of the fatal squadron. The final two appear to have been taken shortly after the sailor was rescued and show the wrecked vessels from the beach and from a rocky cliff overlooking the channel. Four photos in the group record the incident at Scapa Floe on June 21 1919 where a German fleet of battleships was ordered by the Allies to report following the November Armistice ending World War I. They remained anchored for over 7 months and when word of the Peace Treaty of Versailles came in Admiral Reuter was ordered to surrender the vessels. However before they could be forced to comply the crew scuttled the vessels. We see in these photos the German Destroyers sinking including the S.M.S. Bayern and the S.M.S. Hindenburg with only smokestacks and tripod showing above the waterline. Another photo is labeled in the negative "German sailors leaving their doomed vessels for the last time. The remaining photographs in the group show submarines docked near San Francisco the Battleships Texas California and Florida sailors including a few African American aboard the U.S.S. Goff sailors carrying out routine exercises such as loading the deck gun launching torpedos maneuvering at speed and at least 6 photos of destroyers making heavy smoke which could be the Honda Point ships preceding the disaster. All photos are in very good condition with no previous sign of gluing or taping. Some are numbered and others have notes in white negative verso. A few are faded to sepia but most are still very dark and detailed. An important and historically relevant collection. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis550,00 $US≈ 465,35 €

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