New Mexico (Battleship)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Robert W. de Haas Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 472
Scope and Content
The bulk of the collection contains declassified documents, official orders, maps and internal memoranda about the Pacific theater during World War II and the battleship’s engagement against Japanese forces. Additional material contains de Haas’s on-ship memoranda, internal command memoranda, Japanese propaganda, a scrapbook, issues of the battleship newsletter The Queen’s Daily News, United States Navy (USN) publications on battle experiences and USN periodicals.
Dates:
1939-1946
The USS New Mexico Collection (Hutcheson)
Collection
Identifier: AC 430-p
Scope and Content
Collection consists of one folder of ephemera, including newspaper articles, reunion letters, correspondence, and USS New Mexico history.
Dates:
1915-1989
USS New Mexico BB-40 Collection(Lundgren)
Collection
Identifier: AC 549-p
Scope and Content
Collection of sports programs, menus, newspapers, an autograph page, and other items saved by Eric H. Lundgren who served aboard the USS New Mexico (BB-40) from 1933 to 1937: holiday menus, 1935-1936; football and wrestling programs, 1935-1936; photo of Eric Lundgren (no date); letter postmarked USS New Mexico, 1940; page from Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 1937; shipboard newspaper Republication, 1937.
Dates:
1935-1940
USS New Mexico Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 335-p
Scope and Content
Collection consists of clippings and ephemeral material collected by Casimir Wancowicz while on board the USS New Mexico, including newspaper articles about the accomplishments of the USS New Mexico during World War II.
Dates:
1944-1945
U.S.S. New Mexico Crew Members Interviews
Collection
Identifier: AC 603
Scope and Content
Collection consists of interviews of forty sailors who served on the USS New Mexico at various times. Interviews are recorded on CDs; no transcripts are available.
Dates:
2001 - 2009
USS New Mexico Newsletters and Printed Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1024-BC
Scope and Content
Contains newsletters edited and produced onboard by the crew, memoranda, and assorted commemorative pamphlets.
Dates:
1919-1945; Majority of material found within 1935-1945
USS New Mexico photographs and printed material
Collection
Identifier: MSS-905-SC
Abstract
The collection consists of photographs and printed material relating to the USS New Mexico.
Dates:
1945, 1995; Majority of material found in 1945
USS New Mexico Silver Service Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 397
Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reference material and conservation notes. Forty-eight shop drawings made by Tiffany and Company are included in the collection as is correspondence ralative to the loan of an item to Tiffany for an historical exhibition.
Dates:
1918-1998