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H. Prescott Shreeve Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-313
Scope and Contents The H. Prescott Shreeve papers include the Rules and Bylaws of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association and its member club, the Lake Hopatcong Ice Yachting Club. The collection also includes correspondence to H. Prescott Shreeve while he was president of the organization, newsletters of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association, maps of Lake Hopatcong and Lake Greenwood, where club members sailed, announcements of club meetings, notes taken by Shreeve at those meetings, drawings of vessels made by...
Dates: 1938 - 1970
Found in: Manuscripts

Harlow Family Papers

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Identifier: MSS-Coll-287
Abstract Literary manuscripts, journals, logs, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs (photocopies), correspondence and other ephemeral and miscellaneous materials related to the Harlow family, primarily Frederick Pease Harlow, author of "The Making of a Sailor," and "Chanteying Aboard American Ships". In addition to the typescripts for F.P. Harlow's published works, there are typescripts and manuscript copies of an unpublished memoir and a short maritime novel. Other family members represented include,...
Dates: 1829-1962
Found in: Manuscripts

Harman Hawkins Collection

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Identifier: MSS-Coll-224
Abstract Correspondence, committee records, agendas, dockets, and other documents relating to the United States Yacht Racing Union (USYRU) and its successor the United States Sailing Association (USSA), for which Hawkins served on the appeals and rules committees, the IYRU (International Yacht Racing Union), and the United States Sailing Foundation (USSF). The collection also includes records (ca. 1945-1988) of the Canvas Hangers, a U.S. Coast Guard veterans association of which he was a member and...
Dates: 1942 - 1994
Found in: Manuscripts

Harrison Loring Collection

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Identifier: MSS-Coll-226
Abstract This collection is primarily the business history of Loring's City Point Works in South Boston, from 1874 to 1894, when the yard was closed. The papers occupy 3 document boxes and are arranged by year and subject. Box 1 contains general business papers, the earlier files providing a great deal of information for the contract work on Cruiser #1 (U.S.S. MARBLEHEAD), and three sea-going tugboats. The last half of Box 1 contains family papers relative to Bay Farm, the family estate of Harrison...
Dates: 1842-1910 (bulk 1890-1910)
Found in: Manuscripts

Hatsell P. Lyons Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-225
Abstract

Letters to family members and diaries (1862-1870) describing Lyon's experiences during the Civil War and his later life in Vermont; together with a typewritten account (1903) of Hatsell's Civil War service written by his son, Arthur H. Hatsell. There are no papers dated 1871-1902.

Dates: 1862 - 1903
Found in: Manuscripts

Henry Ashbey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-039
Abstract

Collection of account books relating to the bark C.S. WILLIAMS and schooners ORIENT and FRANCES AMY, which Ashbey commanded; business letters; letters from Ashbey, in Apalachicola, Florida., written to his wife, Abby Jane; and other accounts and papers. Includes letters and affidavits (1856-1857) regarding unpaid notes of the Texas Republic to Henry Ashbey.

Dates: 1834 - 1862
Found in: Manuscripts

Henry C. White Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-342
Abstract Collection, 1901-1951, of Henry C. White (1861-1952), avid yachtsman and artist. Includes personal and business correspondence with Nathanael G. Herreshoff, L. Francis Herreshoff and other members of the Herreshoff family and Herreshoff Manufacturing Company as well as scrapbooks, magazine and newspaper articles, Marine Historical Association material, maps and other items associated with yachting. Collection also includes correspondence between Nelson C. White (1900-1989) and Nelson H....
Dates: 1901 - 1951
Found in: Manuscripts

Henry Grinnell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-008
Abstract

The collection is limited to an 11 year period, primarily to the years 1860-1871 and the Charles F. Hall polar expedition. Included are letters to Grinnell from C.F. Hall in New London, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C., regarding Arctic exploration and Hall's work in obtaining a Congressional appropriation for an expedition. Included also is a list of donations to the Hall Franklin expedition of 1860.

Dates: 1860 - 1871; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1871
Found in: Manuscripts

Henry H. Anderson Papers

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Identifier: MSS-Coll-341
Abstract Papers, 1911-1995, of Henry Hill Anderson. Includes a variety of unbound logs, narratives, and journals as well as correspondence concerning Anderson’s voyage as a cabin boy from 1911 Nov-1912 on the bark FOOHNG SUEY, from New York to Hawaii. During this voyage around Cape Horn he records navigational data, what he learns from the many different men on board, and the death of one of the men at the hands of the cook, who later jumped overboard mid-ocean. The different documents all record the...
Dates: 1911 - 1995
Found in: Manuscripts

Henry W. Hiller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-077
Abstract

Correspondence, diary, notes for speeches, documents, photographs, and other papers of Hiller and his wife Liuboff Gouberoff Hiller, relating to his career as a whaler out of New Bedford, Massachusetts; his work in Siberia as a commercial agent for Boston importers William H. Boardman & Company; as U.S. consul during the Lincoln administration; his specialization in the jewelry trade in New York, and his association with Tiffany & Company.

Dates: 1855 - 1960
Found in: Manuscripts

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