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Title: Thomas Andrew Bailey and Paul B. Ryan collection (Bailey-Ryan Collection)
Date (inclusive): 1915-1979
Collection Number: 75003
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
17 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize folders, 2 slide boxes, 13 microfilm reels, 1 phonotape
(9.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, notes, photocopies of government documents, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the sinking of the
Lusitania in 1915, and to the undeclared American-German naval war, 1939-1941. Collected by T. A. Bailey and Paul B. Ryan.
Includes some papers of T. A. Bailey, relating especially to the Marshall Plan.
source:
Bailey, Thomas Andrew, 1902-1983
Creator:
Ryan, Paul B.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
[Identification of item], Thomas Andrew Bailey and Paul B. Ryan collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
Library & Archives.
The collection contains research materials relating to the sinking of the British liner
Lusitania by a German submarine on 7 May 1915. Included are copies of the records of the British official inquiry; the legal proceedings
held by a U.S. Federal Court; letters from archival sources in Great Britain, Germany, Canada, and the United States; and
a file of letters written in 1934 by Admiral Arno Spindler of the German Navy to Professor Thomas A. Bailey. Additional files
contain correspondence with various professional and naval technical agencies, individual experts, and John Light, a professional
diver who examined the wreck of the
Lusitania off the coast of Ireland.
The materials were collected by Professor Thomas A. Bailey, Stanford University, and Captain Paul B. Ryan, USN (Ret.), in
preparation for the publication of their book The
Lusitania Disaster: An Episode in Modern War and Diplomacy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Slides (Photography)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Submarine
Neutrality -- United States
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe
Economic assistance, American -- Europe
United States. Navy
Lusitania (Steamship)
Bailey, Thomas Andrew, 1902-1983