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Albert E. Condon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-035
Abstract

This collection, mostly fishing draggers and scallopers, also includes commercial cargo carriers and yachts as well as collected plans of other designers.

Dates: 1916 - 1961

Albert L. Freeman Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-118
Abstract This is a collection of letters from Freeman to Charles Cullis (1833-1892), mostly written while Freeman was an agent in Shanghai for H. Fogg & Company, ship chandlers and agents, headquartered in New York, N.Y., including descriptions of his first voyage to China on the bark STORM, subsequent trips to China (acting as a free agent), travels by sea, the cities of New York, San Francisco, and London, missionary work and activities with seamen's missions, and medicine. Included are...
Dates: 1853 - 1862
Found in: Manuscripts

Alexander G. Law Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-261
Abstract

Research notes, articles, newspaper clippings, letters, plans and data, ca. 1940-1960, collected by Alexander G. Law in the process of creating miniature ship models. Includes information about several of Law's models including the Ark Royal, H.M.S. Beagle, sloop Spray, H.M.S. Bounty, U.S.S. Constitution, clipper ship Flying Cloud, Brig Mary Celeste, and H.M.S. Victory.

Dates: ca. 1940-1960
Found in: Manuscripts

Alfred F. Loomis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-164
Abstract

Correspondence, articles by Loomis, race and cruise circulars, and nine scrapbooks of clippings, relating to his work for Yachting magazine, his lecture circuit, yacht races between 1950 and 1965, including America's Cup, Fastnet, and Newport, R.I., to Bermuda, yacht cruises, engines, protocol, World War I, and other topics of maritime and naval interest.

Dates: 1910 - 1971
Found in: Manuscripts

Alfred H. Pinkham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-074
Abstract This collection is comprised of 15 file follders contained in one document case. The first 12 folders contain shipping papers, etc, arranged chronologically between 1863 and 1884. Included here are outfitting bills and receipts, charter-parties, bills of lading, cargo manifests, letters to Alfred Pinkham and various port and consulate documents. Folder 13 has two "Fisherman's Shipping Papers" for schooner DIPLOMA, 1873, while folder 14 contains nine shipping articles for various schooners...
Dates: 1863 - 1884
Found in: Manuscripts

Allan H. Vaitses Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-109
Dates: Majority of material found within 1907 - 1960

Alpheus B. Kenyon Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-205
Abstract

The collection consists of three small diaries written daily by Alpheus B. Kenyon in 1864, 1865 and 1866 when he was living with his parents and his brother, Myron, in the Old Field Section of West Mystic.



Dates: 1864 - 1866
Found in: Manuscripts

American Canoe Association Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-291
Abstract

Papers associated with the American Canoe Association including circulars, correspondence, ledgers, membership lists, minutes, minute books, newsletters, pamphlets and record books. Also includes business papers of clubs, the United States Olympic Committee and the International Canoe Federation.

Dates: 1881 - 1997
Found in: Manuscripts

Andrew T. Judson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-247
Abstract Letters received by Judson (1825-1849); deed (1843) for property in Canterbury; Judson family letters (3 items, ca. 1856-1861); documents relating to the AMISTAD trial; and ms. autobiographical sketch written by Judson in 1847. AMISTAD documents include: rough notes of testimony from the two Cuban slaveowners taken aboard the brig WASHINGTON (U.S. revenue cutter responsible for the capture of the AMISTAD) at New London, Conn. (1839 Aug. 29); transcript of first day testimony (10 items, 1839)...
Dates: 1825 - 1861
Found in: Manuscripts

Anthony Smalley Papers

 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
Found in: Manuscripts

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New London (Conn.) 7
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Mystic (Conn.) 6
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Whale oil 6
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Cotton trade 5
Death at sea 5
Groton (Conn.) 5
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Marine protests 5
Naval architects 5
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Language
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Eastern Ice Yachting Association 1
Hillman Shipyard 1
Isaac Jeanes & Co. 1
Leviathan (Steamship) 1
Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1