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Oystering Collection
The collection contains miscellaneous receipts, deeds, franchises, leases, licenses, transfers, bills of sale, tax notices and returns, broadsides, correspondence, etc., involving oystering, primarily in the New Haven and Bridgeport, Connecticut, area. Oyster men featured are H. C. Rowe, A. E. Hamilton, Charles E. Hamilton, and Edwin Thompson. The collection also includes numerous pamphlets and articles relating to the oyster industry in general.
Papers of the Sebago Canoe Company
Passenger Ship Collection
Postcards, brochures, menus, time-tables, tickets and other ephemeral material collected by Mystic Seaport, relating to vessels that carried passengers, even if that vessel had other primary functions.
Percy Chubb II; America's Cup Collection
Peter Strickland Collection
The Peter Strickland Papers consists of 20 volumes contained in four document cases, which span the career of this Connecticut shipmaster, merchant, and diplomat from 1864 through 1922.
Philo S. Shelton Letters
Letters from Shelton to Moses Taylor, a New York merchant, including discussions of sales, purchases, and shipments of sugar, rice, flour, molasses, honey, Havana cigars, and tobacco; and the specie crisis of 1836 and its effect on the merchant community.
Records of A. Irving & Co.
The collection consists of two ledgers, a journal, and a materials daybook.
Records of Carpenter & Edson
Chiefly orders from chandlery firms, jobbers, shipwrights, etc. for mast hoops; together with a few letter and notes.