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William M. Carpenter papers (MSC-346)

Naval Historical Collection, U.S. Naval War College

686 Cushing Road
Newport, RI 02841-1207
Tel: 401-841-2435
email: nhc@usnwc.edu
Website: https://usnwcarchives.org/

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Gift of Suzanne (Carpenter) McKeen on 22 November 2014. Ms.Ac.2014.46
Custodial history: Papers were in the custody of several family members following the death of Captain Carpenter in 2006. His daughter, Suzanna McKeen, gathered the papers and donated them in 2014.
Processing information: This collection was initially processed by Scott Riley in 2015 and arranged into 7 boxes. In 2016 Robert Marchetta attempted to draft a finding aid and reprocess the collection to current archival standards. Elysia Hamelin completed the reprocessing and a DACS compliant finding aid in 2017.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Elysia Hamelin, October 2017.
Encoding: Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth Delmage, March 2018.
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS).