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Frank F. Upson Papers
The collection includes cashbooks, notebooks, and diary of appointments, relating to Upson's sailmaking business.
Fred Plaisted Papers
Scrapbook, clippings, and photographs on the career of champion rower Fred Plaisted.
Frederic A. Fenger Papers
Correspondence, calculations, descriptions, sketches, articles, photographs, and other papers, chiefly relating to Fenger's development of the Main-Trysail rig. Includes his log and related information concerning his cruise on the canoe YAKABOO in 1911.
Fulwar Skipwith Papers
Papers, assembled by Skipwith pertaining to case histories of French spoliation claims, including correspondence, powers-of-attorney, protests, certifications, manifests, inventories, and charter-parties for the barks POLLY and NANCY; the brigs EXPERIENCE, MARIA, FAIRY and MARY; the schooners JAVA, ILLINOIS, NANCY (of Philadelphia), PHOEBE, HENRY & GUSTAVUS and NANCY (of Providence, R.I.); the ships FAME, and HOPE; the sloop PHILADELPHIA PACKET; and the snow ELIZA.
George A. Erskine collection
George Blunt Wendell Collection
George C. Bugbee Collection
George Comer Collection
The George Comer Collection contains a small number of letters, some printed matter, and numerous clippings (copies) relative to Comer's voyages and activities. There are also seven whaling/sealing journals and two naval journals, along with four notebooks kept by Capt. Comer.
George Dunn Gilderdale Papers
This is a collection of correspondence, accounts, logbooks, notebooks, shipping documents, home remedies for ailments and diseases, etc. Topics include Gilderdale's command of the bark PERU on a whaling and sealing voyage to the South Shetland Islands, the steamships EUTERPE and GENERAL SEDGEWICK, and the ship MARY AND SUSAN; his Civil War service in the U.S. Navy on board the U.S.S. ADOLPH HUGEL, ARLETTA, COMMODORE READ, and YANKEE; and flags and signals.
George Elliott Collection
Journals and other documents related to George Elliott’s sealing and whaling voyages, including a contract with Silas E. Burrows and account of Nathaniel Brown Palmer’s last sealing expedition; a lecture Elliott delivered on whales and whaling; family correspondence; an autobiography written by Elizabeth Hill, Elliott’s mother; sketches of Elliott’s inventions; receipts and miscellaneous papers dealing with the Elliott/Hill families and Elliot’s business undertakings.