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Membership material for the Navy Mutual Aid Association, Allotment Check transmissions and Statement of Account for his pay. Leave requests from 1903-1906. 1922 letter exchange with the Judge Advocate General about bonds.

Report "574 C" reconciling statement of William Wilson Galt, Paymaster, U.S. Navy, Norfolk, Virginia. for 1st quarter of 1896, and Auditor memos from 1913 and 1914.

Ledger which is a cash book for the USS. Kentucky (1903-unknown), but also records 1906-1907 sales of "The Battle of Manila Bay" on pages 54-63, 89-90. Near the end of the book are entries for the USS Vicksburg from 1902-1903. Loose papers include sheets listing men and their positions on the Boston, the Raleigh, the Baltimore, and other ships. Includes a few paymaster receipts. Printed list of arrival and departure dates and name of ports for the "Cruise of USS Kentucky" (1900-1904); 1903 issue of "The Open Door: Thanksgiving Number" which includes names of all crew members; 1904 February 20 issue of "The Open Door". Correspondence about physical exam before receiving a promotion and other material included.

Correspondence, supply orders, memos, and other supply related material while stationed in Gibraltar, Hong Kong, and Smyrna. Includes a barber bill for 1899 with names of the men, their pay number and rating; 1898 list from the Treasury Department of the "Values of Foreign Coins"; handmade card signed by members of the crew entitled "You May Fire When You are Ready, Gridley, May 1, 1898 to May 1st, 1901", and a 1898 March 26 letter relieving Galt of duty on the USS Raleigh.

Photo print of "Genl Dewey". Receipts from the Grand Hotel in Guatemala, the Kilaneau Volcano House in Hawaii, the Grand Hotel in Yokohama, and the Fujiya Hotel in Miyanoshita. Pamphlet for the Panic Mail Steamship Company Peru with a list of passengers (1902), and receipt for clothing from "Ah Sing and Co." in Shanghai.

1898 July 9 order to report to the USS Delmonico; note giving the time of the "Sword presentations & c to officers of the Navy"; 1902 appointment and commission as Pay Inspector in the Navy, with the rank of Commander; 1903 appointment order to be on a "Navy Examining Board" and a Congressional Bill (S. 5693) from the 63rd Congress, 2nd Session "To provide for the promotion of Pay Director William Wilson Galt...to the rank of Rear Admiral in the Pay Corps of the Navy upon his retirement from the service" (1914). Correspondence in regard to promotions, including letters of recommendations.

Includes a 1871 obituary of Judge William Leigh of Halifax County, Virginia. Most clippings deal with events in the Norfolk, Virginia area, either articles or editorials.

Includes news clippings; a printed John Knox poem, a program of "The Little Duke" performed in at the Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1879-80; a pamphlet "Ode Commemorating the Entrance of the Hon. Horace Binney on his Ninety-Third Year" dated 1872 January 4 and printed in Norfolk, Virginia; 1939 brochure by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities "Pocahontas Bright Stream Between Two Hills", and two other pamphlets for Jamestown Island, 1941 and undated.

Brochures, pamphlets, sales advertising, "how to play whist" pamphlet, postcards, printed poems, recipes, programs, safe driver's manual, "a Summary History of the Palazzo Dandolo now Royal Hotel Danieli in Venice" (1896), postcards of Venice, tourist photographs of Venice, an 1894 Missionary Calendar of Prayer, and a 1904 pamphlet Concerning Old Norfolk about Norfolk, Virginia.

Broadside announcement of the "Resolutions of Respect in the memory of Judge Wood Bouldin" which were passed at a "meeting of the citizens of Charlotte County, Court Day, November 6th, 1876." Broadsides for farm machinery, "Spring Hill Nursery" in Prospect, Virginia, "Greensboro Nurseries" in Greensboro, North Carolina, tobacco, chemicals, bookstores, kettles, and manure. March 1900 flyer for the Southern Historical Association, price list for plows from "Charles E. Hunter" in Richmond, Virginia; how-to cards from "A.H. Patch" of Clarksville, Tennessee, two copies of Volume II, No. 11, 1891 March 14 "Knowledge, a Weekly Magazine", reprint of "Use and Abuse of the Obstetric Forceps," and flyer with prices from tobacco to groceries for "Sublett & Cary" General Commission Merchants.