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Ernest F. Gates Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-218
Abstract Chiefly correspondence, clippings, notes, and memorabilia relating to Gate's whaling hobby and his curatorship of the Jibboom Club. Includes a large amount of personal correspondence with William H. Tripp, director of Old Dartmouth Historical Society, and George H. Reynolds, New Bedford, Mass., printer, relating to whaling matters, the efforts to keep the bark CHARLES W. MORGAN in New Bedford, the failure of fund raising efforts, subsequent move of the vessel to Mystic, Conn., when it was...
Dates: 1927 - 1967
Found in: Manuscripts

Everett A. Scholfield Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-148
Abstract

Correspondence, accounts, bills, order books, cashbooks, appointment books, price lists, photography formulas, charts, advertisements, technical information, and other papers. Persons represented include photographers (and partners) Nathan E. Nash, Lucius Thompson, W.T. Dyer, Addison Scholfield, and George E. Tingley, and E.A. Scholfield's wife, Leonora B. (Ashbey) Scholfield.

Dates: 1843 - 1930
Found in: Manuscripts

Everett St. John Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-326
Abstract

Plans for marine instruments and vessels, correspondence, and research of Everett St. John, a twentieth century marine instrument and small craft designer based in southern Connecticut.

Dates: 1916 - 1977
Found in: Manuscripts

Fish Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-043
Abstract

This is a collection of correspondence (1810-1864) and 12 diaries (1811-1868). Persons represented include Asa Fish, Dr. Asa Fish, Asa Fish III, Benjamin Fish, Emeline (Beebe) Fish, John Dean Fish, Prudence Fish, Capt. Nathan Fish, Sands Helme Fish, Silas Fish, and Fanny Dean (Fish) Woodhull.

Dates: 1810-1868
Found in: Manuscripts

Fish Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-178
Abstract

Chiefly letters written to Simeon G. Fish, son of shipbuilder Nathan G. Fish, owner of Maxon, Fish & Co., containing descriptions of social life and daily activities in Mystic during the mid-19th century. Other persons represented include members of the Miner and Randall families.

Dates: 1849 - 1894
Found in: Manuscripts

Fish Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-211
Abstract

The collection contains files of correspondence and other papers. In addition there are three volumes, which are diary/account books kept by James D. Fish and Herman E. Street. The collection is largely comprised of domestic correspondence between James Deane Fish, his brother and sister, his children, and other relatives and friends.

Dates: 1830-1933, (bulk 1840-1899)
Found in: Manuscripts

Forbes Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-293
Abstract

Primarily logbooks, account books, crew lists, passenger lists, protests, and sailing orders for the ships FRANCIS DEPAU (1836-1843) and SULLY (1833-1835), masters Cleaveland A. Forbes and Thomas Forbes. The collection also includes correspondence, estate papers, diaries, records for the family farm in Perth Amboy, and other family materials.

Dates: 1833 - 1880
Found in: Manuscripts

Forest Bennett Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-251
Abstract Diaries reflecting personal and local events, including many comments on world politics and its effect on the New London, Conn., region. Among local events, Bennett records the Oct. 9, 1936 passage of the HINDENBURG over New London, the hurricane in Sept. 1938 which devastated southern New England, annual Yale-Harvard boat races watched from the New London bridge, events surrounding World War II, and events in nearby towns of Mystic and Niantic and his use of bridges in these towns for his...
Dates: 1935 - 1945
Found in: Manuscripts

Forseth-Tift Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-277
Abstract

The Forseth-Tift family collection primarily contains correspondence between various family members regarding Preston and Mystic (Conn.) events and news of friends and family. The collection also contains a a Bill of sale for Phillip and a court summons.

Dates: 1758 - 1846
Found in: Manuscripts

Frank Bowne Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-229
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, and other papers, relating to over 150 sail and steam yachts

Dates: 1903 - 1914
Found in: Manuscripts

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Mystic (Conn.) 6
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Shipping--Rhode Island--Providence 5
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Yachts--Design and construction 5
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Language
English 309
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Names
Eastern Ice Yachting Association 1
Hillman Shipyard 1
Isaac Jeanes & Co. 1
Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1
Plaisted, Fred, 1849-1943 1