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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

Beebe Family Collection

 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
Found in: Manuscripts

Benjamin F. Noyes Papers

 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
Found in: Manuscripts

Burgess-Donaldson Collection

 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

Charles D. Mower Collection

 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

Charles W. Morgan

 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 (Ohio and Michigan, 1840-1862); papers...
Dates: 1796-1861
Found in: Manuscripts

Collection of Howard A. Krumwiede

 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
Found in: Manuscripts

Collection of Louis F. Middlebrook

 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
Found in: Manuscripts

Collection of Tom Harris

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-384
Dates: 1901 - 1920
Found in: Manuscripts

Dieter Empacher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-143
Content Description

Plans and papers from yacht designer Dieter Empacher The collection consists of designs by Mr. Empacher as well as plans of boats from other designers on which Mr. Empacher worked. The total number of designs in the collection:242 The total number of sheets in the collection:1,613 Also included are 20 banker's boxes of design information

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960 - 2010

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Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1
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