David Foote Sellers Papers 1860-1949 (bulk 1927-1938)

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David Foote Sellers Papers 1860-1949 (bulk 1927-1938)

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, photos, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Sellers’s naval career.

6,500 items; 20 containers; 10 linear feet

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