Scope and Contents
Access to Collection
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Separated Materials note
Title: Great White Fleet ephemera
Identifier/Call Number: M1883
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): circa 1901-1910
Abstract: Postcards, lithographs, clippings, and other material related to the Great White Fleet and the United States Navy.
Scope and Contents
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.
Access to Collection
The materials are open for research use.
Publication Rights
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
[identification of item], Great White Fleet : ephemera (M1883). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Separated Materials note
The three oversize items in map folders were cataloged individually but retain the M1883 number.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Branning, Edward D.
United States. Navy.
United States--History, Naval--20th century