WE NEED YOUR HELP to gather and preserve artifacts from every chapter of the 30 years of CVE history.
Let ECSAA organize and protect your historical items, and include them in a larger historical donation.
Examples of the Historical Artifacts that ECSSA is looking for and working to gather for donation to official museums / archives for professional and perpetual curation. If you think you have some of the items below, please directly contact ECSAA President Dave Ryan at Dave.Ryan@ecsaa.org
Command Operation Reports, Deck Logs, Ships Drawings, official photography and official film is archived by the Navy and accessible to the public through the Navy Archives. However, you might have one or more of these items and it turns out they are missing from the Navy’s collection.
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Books, Logs, Documents, Letters: Books, publications, newsletters, manuscripts, log books, letters, correspondence and other ephemera enhance historical collections and support research by historians, scholars, and researchers.
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Personal papers generated, collected, and/or maintained by an individual or family. Often a mix of media formats and may include published and unpublished materials.
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Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, speeches, draft publications, research or reference files, scrapbooks, audio/visual materials, maps, drawings, plans, oral histories.
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Financial or organizational records, electronic documents, and ephemera.
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Unofficial copies of U.S. Navy documents that were created, acquired, collected, compiled, or received by an individual or organization as part of their work or research.
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Cruise books for ships, Seabee and aviation units, and training activities
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Welcome aboard, launching, christening, commissioning, decommissioning, and transfer to a foreign government ship brochures
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Change of command and retirement ceremony brochures
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Manuals, ship & unit newsletters, and other official publications and ceremonial certificates.
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Menus, ship’s entertainment/sports programs (including “smokers”), other paper ephemera
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Naval postal covers
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Naval, nautical, and military history books in foreign languages, Naval war games documents
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Command Operation Reports, Deck Logs, Ships Drawings, official photography and official film is archived by the Navy and accessible to the public through the Navy Archives. However, you might have one or more of these items and it turns out they are missing from the Navy’s collection.
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Ships Archives: Artifacts relating to specific ships, events or people. Three-dimensional objects relating to the U.S. Navy with specific emphasis on ships, aviation, places, wars/events, activities, and significant individuals associated with naval history. Both official and unofficial naval items.
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Uniforms, Medals, Awards, Signal, Radio and Communications, Builder’s plaques, Plaques, Bells, Flags, Ship parts, instruments, Models, People, Navigation instruments, Rest & Relaxation
Photo/Audio/Video/Film Archives: Photographic, video, film, slide or scrapbooks/albums of such, and/or audio recordings related to the U.S. Navy (or other navies specifically associated with U.S. involvement). Especially ships, aviation, places, wars/events, activities, and people associated with naval history.
• Individual items, collections, scrapbooks, albums
• Including daguerreotype, glass plate negatives, prints, transparencies, slides, and negatives.
• Including all formats of film, video, audio recordings
• Oral Histories (individual and/or collections) recorded on audio or video/audio
Art: Paintings, watercolors, drawings and engravings.