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Marine Jurisprudence Collection
Items in this collection pertain to 28 cases of marine jurisprudence involving litigation at Portland, Cumberland County, Massachusetts (now Maine), during an 11 year period between 1798 and 1809. Organization is by specific case, usually identified by the name of the vessel involved. The names of shipmasters and shipowners, insurance companies, charterers, shipwrights, and other individuals and firms involved in these cases appear throughout the collection.
Matthew Bartlett--John F. Brooks Papers
Milton J. Burns Collection
Letters from Burns to his wife, Mary (Waud) Burns, in New Jersey, relating to his stay in England from Feb. to July 1910, where he tried selling his work to various publishers; together with samples of his engravings from Harpers' New Monthly Magazine, Literary Digest, Century Magazine and others
Morgan Barney Collection
Mystic River Railroad Drawbridge Log
Logbooks, kept at the railroad drawbridge over the Mystic River in Connecticut which was owned and operated by the railroad company. Logs record the names of vessels passing through the bridge on their way in and out of the river.
Mystic Seaport Museum Sailing Card Collection
Sailing cards (used to advertise vessel qualifications and sailing dates) for a number of well-known vessels, including the DAVID CROCKETT, GREAT REPUBLIC, and YOUNG AMERICA, and other vessels, including several for other vessels built in Mystic, Connecticut.
Nathaniel Mathews Collection
New Bedford Cordage Company Correspondence
Letterpress books, copybooks, and account book containing business correspondence and financial records of the New Bedford Cordage Company, Massachusetts.
Newman Family Naval Papers
Oscar F. Stanton Collection
This collection includes official and personal correspondence, essays, drafts of articles and speeches, orders, and clippings. Present also, are testimony and other documents relative to the wreck of the U.S.S. KEARSARGE in the Gulf of Mexico in 1894. Volumes include an abstract log of the Store Ship PURVEYOR, and a captain's data notebook do U.S.F.S TENNESSEE, ca. 1885.