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Lawley Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-279
Abstract Papers and volumes of the Lawley family of Massachusetts. Collection contains personal papers such as correspondence, legal papers and ephemera of George F. Lawley, Frederick D. Lawley, and George F. Lawley, II. Collection also contains business papers of the George Lawley and Son, and F.D. Lawley ship yards, Located in South Boston, Neponset, and Quincy, Massachusetts. Business papers include vessel records; cost sheets, scantlings, owners, etc. and wage information; lists, time sheets and...
Dates: 1839 - 1990
Found in: Manuscripts

Legal Records of the Smack L.A. Macomber

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-045
Abstract

Legal briefs (chiefly rough drafts), probate certificates, and powers of attorney, relating to the destruction of the L.A. MACOMBER. Includes copy of rules of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, together with act organizing the court (1874); correspondence to lawyer Frederick A. Holmes, of Mystic River, Conn., representing the complainants (i.e. owner and crew of vessel) from John Davis, clerk of the court, relating to the cases; and letter giving final disposition of each case.

Dates: 1863-1876
Found in: Manuscripts

Levi B. Gillchrest Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-147
Abstract Letters, bills, accounts, receipts, etc. relating to Captain Gillchrest's maritime activities, chiefly letters to Gillchrest from ship captains, including his father, Joseph Gillchrest, as well as agents such as Baring Brothers, R.L. Gillchrest & Co., and Snow & Burgess, relating to freight rates, market conditions, shipbuilding, difficulties with vessels and crews, etc. Topics include Gillchrest's ownership of shares in numerous vessels involved in coastwise and transatlantic...
Dates: 1833-1865, (bulk 1850-1864), additional information 1979-1980
Found in: Manuscripts

Lois Darling Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-267
Abstract

Papers of Lois Darling reflecting her maritime interests and including research notes, articles, clippings, sketches, correspondence, the logbook of the sloop SESAME and a scrapbook about the Larchmont Yacht Club. The papers document Darling's involvement with her catboats, the Catboat Association, yachts, model building, and the HMS Beagle.

Dates: 1940 - 1987
Found in: Manuscripts

Lord Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-140
Abstract Business and personal correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, shipping and cargo records, marine insurance policies, articles of agreement, charter parties, bills of lading, and other documents, chiefly relating to the shipping activities of Daniel Walker Lord (1800-1880) and other family members, including William Jefferds (1753-1820), Nathaniel Lord (1776-1815), Lieut. Tobias Lord (1748-1808), and Tobias Lord (1778-1854), the family's shipping agent in New York City. Includes published...
Dates: 1800-1880 (bulk 1810-1860)
Found in: Manuscripts

Lorenzo Bryant Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-106
Abstract

The collection includes bills, receipts, crew lists, accounts, insurance policies, port papers, letters, and account books.

Dates: 1869-1908
Found in: Manuscripts

Louis J. Kromholz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-010
Dates: Majority of material found within 1915 - 1960
Found in: Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library

Lucille M. Showalter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-334
Abstract Collection, 1851-1994, contains research papers for Lucille M. Showalter’s graduate work in American History classes taken at Connecticut College, University of Connecticut, and Mystic Seaport’s Munson Institute. Includes information on Schooner POLARIS (built as AMERICA, 1864) and the Arctic voyage in which Captain Charles F. Hall mysteriously died. Also includes information about the Inuit and members of the POLARIS crew as well as information on other Arctic voyages and whale men....
Dates: 1851-1999 (bulk 1969-1999)
Found in: Manuscripts

Major William Smyth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-036
Dates: Majority of material found within 1904 - 1951
Found in: Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library

Mallory Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-005
Abstract The Mallory Family Papers, 1808-1966 (bulk between 1886-1941), consist of twenty fiberdex cartons containing approximately 6,000 pieces and 86 volumes which depict 150 years of business activities of an important American shipping and shipbuilding family in varying degrees of completeness. They include primarily general correspondence, genealogical notes, racing records of family yachts, yachting recollections, statistical data on vessels owned and/or built by the family, newspaper...
Dates: 1808 - 1966
Found in: Manuscripts

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Manuscripts 336
Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library 51
Museum Archives 1
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Subject
International trade 57
Correspondence 42
Yachting 41
Diaries 36
Voyages and travels 36
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Logbooks 35
Account books 28
Ships plans 28
Naval architects--United States 25
Shipping 25
Bills of lading 24
Shipping--New York (State)--New York 24
Yachts 24
Boats and boating 23
Charter-parties 22
Accounts 21
Scrapbooks 21
Insurance policies 20
Photographs 20
Shipping--Massachusetts--Boston 20
Yacht racing 20
Ledgers 19
Naval architecture--Designs and plans 19
Ships--Cargo 19
Coastwise shipping--Atlantic Coast (U.S.) 17
Journals (accounts) 17
Yacht designers--United States 17
Yachts--Design and construction 16
Bills of sale 15
Deeds 15
Ship's papers 15
Crew lists 14
Receipts 14
Shipmasters 14
Cashbooks 13
Seafaring life 13
Specifications 13
Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford 13
Invoices 12
Sailboats 12
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 11
Freight and freightage 11
Merchant mariners 11
Motorboats 11
America's Cup races 9
Boston (Mass.) 9
Letters 9
Logs (records) 9
Shipwrecks 9
United States--Commerce--West Indies 9
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations 9
West Indies--Commerce--United States 9
Whaling 9
Advertisements 8
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Manifests 8
Ships' papers 8
Yacht designers 8
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Family papers 7
Naval architecture 7
New London (Conn.) 7
New York (N.Y.) 7
Sailing 7
Shipping--Connecticut--Mystic 7
Ships--Equipment and supplies 7
Steamboat lines--New York (State)--New York 7
Telegrams 7
Yacht building 7
Agreements 6
Alabama claims 6
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Drawings 6
Genealogies 6
Insurance, Marine 6
Lumber trade 6
Merchants--New York (State)--New York 6
Minutes 6
Mystic (Conn.) 6
Newsletters 6
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Sailing ships 6
Shipbuilding--Connecticut--Mystic 6
Shipmasters--Connecticut--Mystic 6
Shipmasters--United States 6
Whale oil 6
Whaling masters 6
Whaling--Connecticut--New London 6
Baltimore (Md.) 5
Coastwise shipping 5
Cotton trade 5
Death at sea 5
Groton (Conn.) 5
Letterpress copybooks 5
Marine protests 5
Naval architects 5
Protection certificates 5
Ship models 5
Shipowners--Connecticut--Mystic 5
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Language
English 356
Undetermined 33
 
Names
Eastern Ice Yachting Association 1
Hillman Shipyard 1
Isaac Jeanes & Co. 1
Leviathan (Steamship) 1
Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1
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Plaisted, Fred, 1849-1943 1
Robert E. Lee (Steamship) 1
Rudge, Raymond A. 1
Shreeve, H. Prescott 1
Veteran Athletes of Philadelphia 1
Washington Insurance Company in Providence 1
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