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Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-226
Abstract
This collection is primarily the business history of Loring's City Point Works in South Boston, from 1874 to 1894, when the yard was closed. The papers occupy 3 document boxes and are arranged by year and subject. Box 1 contains general business papers, the earlier files providing a great deal of information for the contract work on Cruiser #1 (U.S.S. MARBLEHEAD), and three sea-going tugboats. The last half of Box 1 contains family papers relative to Bay Farm, the family estate of Harrison...
Dates:
1842-1910 (bulk 1890-1910)
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-225
Abstract
Letters to family members and diaries (1862-1870) describing Lyon's experiences during the Civil War and his later life in Vermont; together with a typewritten account (1903) of Hatsell's Civil War service written by his son, Arthur H. Hatsell. There are no papers dated 1871-1902.
Dates:
1862 - 1903
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-101
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-023
Abstract
Plans of Henry A. Scheel's yacht designs. Some waritme work as well as reference plans of other designers are included.
Dates:
1926 - 1993
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-039
Abstract
Collection of account books relating to the bark C.S. WILLIAMS and schooners ORIENT and FRANCES AMY, which Ashbey commanded; business letters; letters from Ashbey, in Apalachicola, Florida., written to his wife, Abby Jane; and other accounts and papers. Includes letters and affidavits (1856-1857) regarding unpaid notes of the Texas Republic to Henry Ashbey.
Dates:
1834 - 1862
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-028
Abstract
Designs for yachts built by Henry B. Nevins, Inc. Designers include George F. Crouch, Charles D. Mower, Clinton H. Crane, Frederick M. Hoyt, Henry J. Gielow, Inc., Tams & King, Inc. and William Gardner & Co.
Dates:
1913 - 1942
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-342
Abstract
Collection, 1901-1951, of Henry C. White (1861-1952), avid yachtsman and artist. Includes personal and business correspondence with Nathanael G. Herreshoff, L. Francis Herreshoff and other members of the Herreshoff family and Herreshoff Manufacturing Company as well as scrapbooks, magazine and newspaper articles, Marine Historical Association material, maps and other items associated with yachting. Collection also includes correspondence between Nelson C. White (1900-1989) and Nelson H....
Dates:
1901 - 1951
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-008
Abstract
The collection is limited to an 11 year period, primarily to the years 1860-1871 and the Charles F. Hall polar expedition. Included are letters to Grinnell from C.F. Hall in New London, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C., regarding Arctic exploration and Hall's work in obtaining a Congressional appropriation for an expedition. Included also is a list of donations to the Hall Franklin expedition of 1860.
Dates:
1860 - 1871; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1871
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-341
Abstract
Papers, 1911-1995, of Henry Hill Anderson. Includes a variety of unbound logs, narratives, and journals as well as correspondence concerning Anderson’s voyage as a cabin boy from 1911 Nov-1912 on the bark FOOHNG SUEY, from New York to Hawaii. During this voyage around Cape Horn he records navigational data, what he learns from the many different men on board, and the death of one of the men at the hands of the cook, who later jumped overboard mid-ocean. The different documents all record the...
Dates:
1911 - 1995
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-117
