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Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-109
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1907 - 1960
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-013
Abstract
This is a collection of correspondence, charter parties, and accounts mentioning cargoes predominantly of hides, fruit, salt, and lumber. Includes letters and telegrams to Smalley as master of the bark JENNIE CUSHMAN and the schooner EMMA C. LATHAM and as agent for Francis C. Butman, a Boston shipping and commission merchant, in St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, and Goree, Senegal. Other vessels mentioned in the correspondence include schooners ARTHUR EGGLESO, ANNIE FAIRFAX, and WARREN...
Dates:
1870-1879
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-040
Abstract
Letters, personal accounts, and other papers, of Silas Beebe (1782-1863), shipmaster from Groton, Conn., and other members of the family; together with ship's papers for the coastal schooner LaGrange, out of Mystic, Conn.
Dates:
1761-1904
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-052
Abstract
This is a collection of correspondence, logbooks, accounts, bills, receipts, insurance policies, shipping articles, bills of lading, charter parties, and other papers. Vessels represented include the brig J.G. ANDERSON, brig BELLE OF THE BAY, brig GENERAL BAILEY and schooner CHARMER.
Dates:
1860 - 1880
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-096
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1906 - 1999
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-011
Abstract
Plans produced by W. Starling Burgess from the mid-1920's to the mid-1930's while working in several partnerships. Plans are primarily for sailing yachts, and some one design classes are represented, including M class sloops and 12 meters. Drawings for the America's Cup defenders ENTERPRISE (1930) and RAINBOW (1934) are included.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1907 - 1934
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-009
Abstract
Mower's original drawings for yachts in power and sail, including sloops, yawls, cat boats, schooners, ketches, cutters, and power launches. Some one design classes are included, as well as vessels published as "How To Build" designs in Rudder magazine.
Dates:
1897 - 1939
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-027
Abstract
This is a collection of correspondence, letterpress and letter copybooks, diaries, ship's outfitting books, invoice book, marine insurance policies, journals, ledgers, wastebooks, deeds, memorandum and petty cashbooks, and other account books, dealing mainly with Morgan's interests in management of whaling ships and contract with U.S. Treasury Dept. to supply whale oil to lighthouses.It also includes material on his investments in western lands such as Ohio and Michigan,...
Dates:
1796 - 1861
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-047
Abstract
Approximately 850 letters, covers, and other papers carried by ships in the late 18th and 19th centuries, nearly all with ship stamps and/or other postal markings, including letters (1840's-1850's) relating to the opium trade and China trade. Also includes Krumwiede's philatelic correspondence (1943-1953) and letters, covers, prints of postal markings, and ship covers; notes and indexed for mail-carrying ships' philatelic clippings; photographs and ship pictures; clipping and articles from...
Dates:
1800-1953
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-050
Abstract
This collection assembled by L.F. Middlebrook is comprised of port and customs papers, miscellaneous bills, and foreign clearance documents for vessels engaged in the rum and molasses trade from Middletown to the West Indies. Items are organized by vessel name, and ten vessels are represented.
Dates:
ca. 1812
