Series III: Membership records (1910-1943)

Scope and Contents note

The membership records include lists of members in various categories (individual, life, honorary, resigned, died), signed cards noting acceptance or decline of membership, members' war service records, records of dues payments, and proxies for meetings; as well as newspaper clippings of members' obituaries. The mailing list for a proposed Marine Museum of the City of New York was probably used as a source of addresses for potential Naval History Society members. Also included is a guest book of signatures, perhaps kept at annual meetings. Additional information on membership can also be found in some of the Annual Reports (Subseries I. Administrative Records), which include lists of current members for the year; and in account books in Subseries V. Financial Records.

Arrangement

Correspondence sent to all members was moved to Subseries II. Correspondence, and arranged there chronologically.

Membership lists, 1910, 1911, 1916, 1919-1923

Box: 21, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Membership acknowledgments, 1910-1919

Box: 21, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Membership lists, 1926-1936

Box: 21, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biographical accounts of members of the Naval History Society: newspaper clippings, obituaries, 1928-1937

Box: 21, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biographical accounts of members of the Naval History Society: newspaper clippings, obituaries, 1928-1937, 1958

Box: 21, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mailing list: Marine Museum of the City of New York, 1931 April 1

Box: 21, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings: newspaper obituaries of members, 1935-1943

Box: 21, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

List of members to receive volume "Quasi War with France", 1936

Box: 21, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Printed notices of nomination to Society, undated

Box: 21, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stubs for dues; signed note on question of increasing dues; signed proxies for annual meetings; returned bills for dues paid; account of dues paid, 1915-1931

Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Member cards; war service records, institutional members, life members, around 1917-1926

Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Returned and paid notices, annual dues, 1929-1936

Box: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Signatures [Guest book], 1916 June 10-1924 September 10

Volume: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)