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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.
Philip LeBoutillier Collection
Collection, 1932-1953, consists of four scrapbooks and loose papers containing newspaper and magazine clippings, letters, photographs, brochures, sail race results and banquet menus as well as racing history pertaining to several yachts owned by yachtsman, businessman and philanthropist Philip LeBoutillier (1880-1972) including STORMY WEATHER (built 1934), VIKING (built 1930), ALSUMAR (built 1930) and NANCY (built 1932).
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.
Portia Takakjian Papers
Papers specific to the ship Raleigh relating to its commissioning, construction and the men involved, materials used, stores, captains, crew and voyages. In addition to material on the Raleigh there is limited information on other ships that Takakjian either had an interest in or built, material related to the publication of the "Anatomy of the Ship", and her references.
Raymond H. Dubrule Collection
The collection consists of documents, originally part of a scrapbook, assembled by Raymond Dubrule during his service with the Naval Armed Guard from 1943 through 1946. Mr. Dubrule served aboard the liberty ships BERNARD M. BAKER and JERRY S. FOLEY and also spent time in New Orleans, San Diego, Guam, North Korea and Shanghai before being discharged from the Navy in Lido Beach, Long Island, New York.
Records of A. Irving & Co.
The collection consists of two ledgers, a journal, and a materials daybook.