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Maria W. Tibbetts Bills of Sale
This collection contains bills of sale for 22 vessels, transferring ownership to Maria W. Tibbetts of Camden, Maine. Most of the transfers are from Joseph H. and H.M.A. Norwood. Vessels represented include barks SAMUEL D. CARLETON and RICHARD PARSONS and brig MARIA W. NORWOOD.
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.
Mason R. Packer Papers
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
Model Yachting Collection
Collection, 1898-1998, of papers of various model yachting organizations and influential people in the development of model yachting in the United States. Consists mainly of newsletters, collected by Roderick A. Carr, meeting minutes, rules and regulations, Theodore W. Houk's correspondence and card files as well as newspaper clippings. Complements The Vintage Model Yacht Group Collection (SP Coll.136) in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library.
Morgan Barney Collection
Muriel Vaughn and L. Francis Herreshoff Collection
Collection, 1926-1988, contains the business and personal correspondence, poetry, drafts of “Rudder” magazine articles, school papers, Coast Guard ID, and personal journals of L. Francis Herreshoff collected by Muriel Vaughn as well as Mrs. Vaughn’s personal and business correspondence. This collection complements the L. Francis Herreshoff manuscript collection (Coll. 138) and ships plans collection (Coll. 38).
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.