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Records of the yacht Caritas
This is a collection of records relating chiefly to design, construction, and fitting out expenses, and running expense books for maintaining the yacht, including deck accounts, general and engineering expenses, and steward's accounts. Also includes correspondence, agreements, and specifications.
Records of Thomas Dunham's Nephew & Company
This collection of the firm's papers contains both business and personal correspondence as well as as accounts, bills of sale and papers having to do with the firm's vessels in the coastal and overseas trade.
Records of Whitney, Cushing & Company
The collection consists of seven business record books. Included are one volume containing invoices of cargo shipped and accounts of cargo sold, and several cash and sales journals recording cash paid and received during this period.
Records of William R. Bowers & Co.
Redford Webster Sargent Collection
This collection contains business and personal papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and an unfinished biography of Sargent by his son, Redford Ames Sargent. Included is a journal kept by Redford Ames Sargent aboard the ship THOMAS DANA of Boston during a voyage 1888-1889.
Robert Bartlett Papers
The collection primarily contains letters from Barlett to his close friend, Southmayd Hatch, an engineer with Socony Vacuum Company, relating to Barlett's travels in Greenland, Newfoundland, and the Arctic, and other mutual interests.
Robert Bruce Strout Collection
Sea journals, diary, account book, obituaries, and related papers. Includes journal describing Pacific whaling voyages (1855-1862), out of New Bedford, Mass., by ship ALICE MANDELL and barks CLEONE, MARTHA, and SALAMANDRE; diary detailing voyage of the CLEONE, chiefly an indictment against the master and first mate; and ships accounts (1868-1871) of the brig CAMILLE, engaged in West Indian trade. Persons represented include Strout's wife, Jane F. Strout.
Robert J. Walker Letters
Letters to C.W Lawrence, Collector of Customs at the Port of New York, dealing with the interpretation of tariff acts and enforcement of customs regulations, including information concerning import duties, drawbacks, expenses for maintaining revenue vessels and customs property, and the names of many vessels.
Robert Palmer Wilbur Collection
The collection consists of scattered papers and volumes including a diary (1863) containing information on shipbuilding. There are also account, bills, and receipts (1876-1881) concerning Wilbur's command of the Ship M.P. GRACE and two survey record books (1896-1899)