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John Bernet Papers
John E. Barstow Collection
This is a collection of the Reminiscences (1 v.) by Barstow of his command of the merchant ship CELESTIAL EMPIRE, 1874-1876, containing illustrations; a volume of sketches, original poems, navigation computation, and clippings; and transcripts (typewritten) of Barstow's sea stories and sketches, many of them watercolor.
John F. Harden Collection
Chiefly personal, business, and family letters (1849-1877) to Harden. Also includes ship-related bills, accounts, receipts, consular certificates, and general clearances. Topics include Harden's activities as a commander of coasting vessels; his transportation of a locomotive to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; maritime trade; and cargoes, generally lumber. Correspondents include shipowners who engaged Harden as a captain, fellow shipmasters, and business owners.
John F. Leavitt Collection
John H. Brower Papers
This is a collection of chiefly records of Brower Company and its predecessors: Brower & Nelson and Wynkoop, Arthur & Brower, which conducted business (mostly in cotton) on an extensive scale, with interests in as many as 15 vessels at one time.
John H. Cogswell Papers
Business papers, including correspondence, bills, and accounts, relating to lumber shipments received by Cogswell, who provided lumber for home construction and shipbuilding, chiefly from suppliers in Maine. Numerous companies and vessels are mentioned, including the schooner HANNAH CLARK and the schooner BOXER.
John H. Wells Collection
John Haskell Collection
Primarily composed of ships' papers and accounts during Haskell's employment in the China and opium trade. The collection also contains Haskell's correspondence with business associates such as his cousin Luke Baldwin Jr., personal correspondence with his wife Harriet, and final estate information.
John Jones Harlow Collection
Collection, 1856-2006, of John Jones Harlow includes a personal memoir of his life on whalers, a logbook from the whaling brig LEONIDAS, papers relating to whaling and other personal papers. Memoirs and logbook contain descriptions of whaling mutinies, injury at sea as well as shipboard life. Logbook also contains whale and porpoise stamps.
John Kingsbury Pimer Collection
The John Kingsbury Pimer Collection consists of letters, household accounts, bills, receipts, daybooks, duck books, spar dimension books, and yearly summaries of receipts, disbursements and accounts with New London whaling agents. It includes some papers relating to Pimer's partnership with James Morris (Morris & Pimer), which was dissolved in 1832. Correspondents include whaling merchants Thomas W. Williams, Williams & Barnes, and Williams & Haven.