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Morgan Barney Collection
Mystic River Railroad Drawbridge Log
Logbooks, kept at the railroad drawbridge over the Mystic River in Connecticut which was owned and operated by the railroad company. Logs record the names of vessels passing through the bridge on their way in and out of the river.
Mystic Seaport Museum Sailing Card Collection
Sailing cards (used to advertise vessel qualifications and sailing dates) for a number of well-known vessels, including the DAVID CROCKETT, GREAT REPUBLIC, and YOUNG AMERICA, and other vessels, including several for other vessels built in Mystic, Connecticut.
Nathaniel Mathews Collection
New Bedford Cordage Company Correspondence
Letterpress books, copybooks, and account book containing business correspondence and financial records of the New Bedford Cordage Company, Massachusetts.
Newman Family Naval Papers
Oscar F. Stanton Collection
This collection includes official and personal correspondence, essays, drafts of articles and speeches, orders, and clippings. Present also, are testimony and other documents relative to the wreck of the U.S.S. KEARSARGE in the Gulf of Mexico in 1894. Volumes include an abstract log of the Store Ship PURVEYOR, and a captain's data notebook do U.S.F.S TENNESSEE, ca. 1885.
Oystering Collection
The collection contains miscellaneous receipts, deeds, franchises, leases, licenses, transfers, bills of sale, tax notices and returns, broadsides, correspondence, etc., involving oystering, primarily in the New Haven and Bridgeport, Connecticut, area. Oyster men featured are H. C. Rowe, A. E. Hamilton, Charles E. Hamilton, and Edwin Thompson. The collection also includes numerous pamphlets and articles relating to the oyster industry in general.
Papers of the Sebago Canoe Company
Passenger Ship Collection
Postcards, brochures, menus, time-tables, tickets and other ephemeral material collected by Mystic Seaport, relating to vessels that carried passengers, even if that vessel had other primary functions.