Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Great White Fleet ephemera
- Dates:
- circa 1901-1910
- Abstract:
- Postcards, lithographs, clippings, and other material related to the Great White Fleet and the United States Navy.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear feet
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Great White Fleet : ephemera (M1883). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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On December 16, 1907, the Great White Fleet of 16 battleships, 6 torpedo boats and 4 auxiliaries from the Atlantic fleet left Hampton Roads, Virginia for a round-the-world trip that would last over 2 years. President Teddy Roosevelt conceived of the idea of sending the fleet around the world as promotion for the United States in the wake of the Sino-Japanese war. Pictorial material including postcards, photographs, lithographs, magazine articles, a world map (map folder 3), flag (map folder 3), neptune certificate (map folder 2), sheet music (map folder 1), etc. The collection is based primarily on material from Mr. Edward Branning, electrician on the U.S.S. Rhode Island; other sources were later added.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 2015
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2015-08-14T15:34-0700
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The materials are open for research use.
- Terms of access:
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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Great White Fleet : ephemera (M1883). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022