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S.S. FRANCONIA World Cruise Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-256
Abstract This Collection includes Adeline Brown's diary, approximately 100 pages bound in a small 3-ring notebook provided for this particular cruise. In addition, she collected programs, brochures, travel schedules, menus, etc, given to the passengers during the trip. There is also a folder of clippings from various newspapers and other publications, probably compiled after the voyage, many of which mention the attractions and/or the various places she may have visited during her career with the...
Dates: ca. 1925
Found in: Manuscripts

Steamboat-Inspection Service Certificates and Licenses

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-130
Abstract

The collection contains certificates and documents issued to steam-powered water craft by the Steamboat Inspection Service, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, primarily through the districts of New London and New Haven, Connecticut. Also includes pilots, masters, and engineers certificates; inspection certificates for passenger and freight steamers, towing and ferry boats, and steam yachts; and miscellaneous documentation relating to steam boilers, licenses extended, and licenses suspended.

Dates: 1853 - 1910
Found in: Manuscripts

Stephen B. Chace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-014
Abstract Collection of correspondence and business papers of Stephen B. Chace. Includes a logbook (1812) of the ship VALENTINE, under Chace's command, on a voyage from Port Louis, Mauritius to Canton, China, and then towards Providence, RI; two ledgers (1810-1814) containing business and ships' accounts; account book (1817-1820) with Merchants Bank of New York City; letters from Chace to his wife, in Somerset, Massachusetts, and Jonathan Bowen, merchant in Newport, Rhode Island; and bill of...
Dates: 1810 - 1822
Found in: Manuscripts

Stephen Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-237
Abstract Correspondence, business accounts, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers. Includes business correspondence and a few accounts relating to Smith's activities as representative of Minturn & Champlin who traveled, often as a supercargo, to various ports in Europe and the Far East; miscellaneous business and family papers (ca. 1820-1859) including references to shipping salt and china trade porcelain; numerous school reports and essays by children, and family...
Dates: 1800 - 1859
Found in: Manuscripts

Talbot Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-151
Abstract The Talbot Family Papers is a collection of sundry bills, receipts, notes, and correspondence relative primarily to Silas Talbot, with lesser numbers of similar material pertaining to George W., Theodore F., Henry, Charles N., Charles R., George A., and Violetta Talbot. The material is concentrated between 1785 and 1813, although some correspondence and Talbot genealogy created in the later 19th and early 20th century is included. Overall there is, correspondence, bills, receipts, notes, and...
Dates: 1775-1927 (bulk 1785-1813)
Found in: Manuscripts

Tate Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-081
Abstract

This collection contains primarily household papers, bills, family letters, account books, tax statements, and general business transactions of William and Isaac C. Tate of New London, Connecticut.

Dates: 1791-1914 (bulk 1840-1894)
Found in: Manuscripts

Thomas C. Harding papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-097
Abstract

Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, bills of lading, charter parties, clearance papers, and agreements, relating to Harding's activities as master of the schooner JULIA ANN, engaged in the coastwise trade, and the bark GEORGE KINGMAN, engaged in the transatlantic trade, both out of Boston.

Dates: 1852 - 1878
Found in: Manuscripts

Thomas C. Mendenhall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-263
Abstract

Papers written or collected by Thomas C. Mendenhall regarding American collegiate rowing. Documents include research, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and drafts for Mendenhall's books entitled The Yale-Harvard Boat Race, 1852-1924, The Coming of Sport to the American College, A Short History of Rowing, and Coaches and Coaching. Collection also includes general research material on rowing history.

Dates: 1910 - 1998
Found in: Manuscripts

Timothea Larr USYRU Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-241
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, memos, minutes, and related papers, collected by Larr, chiefly relating to the organization's involvement in the Australia II keel controversy during the 1983 America's Cup.

Dates: 1981 - 1986
Found in: Manuscripts

Timothy M. Benson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-201
Abstract The Benson Collection begins with two boxes of correspondence, primarily between Timothy Benson and Charles Brewer, discussing cargoes, provisions, repairs, and other general business matters involving the MARTHA DAVIS. Included are some letters-relative to Rebecca Benson and her business affairs with Charles Brewer & Co. 1890-1911. Box 3 contains shipping papers for Barks VIKING 1865-1869, and MARTHA DAVIS 1873-1877, while Box 4 has envelopes, stamped and addressed, ca.1876-1911. The...
Dates: 1865-1911, (bulk 1865-1880)
Found in: Manuscripts

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Hillman Shipyard 1
Isaac Jeanes & Co. 1
Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1
Washington Insurance Company in Providence 1