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Nathaniel Mathews Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-079
Abstract Papers relating to Mathews's maritime career and the vessels he commanded, including accounts and account books for the ship ALARM, ship ERICSSON, ship JOHN TUCKER, ship RADIANT, ship ROBIN HOOD, and ship WINGED ARROW, and the missionary brig MORNING STAR; journals covering voyages by ERICSSON, JOHN TUCKER, MORNING STAR, RADIANT, and WINGED ARROW; and a freight list and sailing instructions (1871-1872) for the missionary brig MORNING STAR. Mathews family material includes household bills and...
Dates: 1820 - 1900
Found in: Manuscripts

New Bedford Cordage Company Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-075
Abstract

Letterpress books, copybooks, and account book containing business correspondence and financial records of the New Bedford Cordage Company, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1860 - 1896
Found in: Manuscripts

Newman Family Naval Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-051
Abstract This is a collection of naval papers of William D. Newman (ca. 1800-1844) and his sons, L. Howard Newman (1833-1866) and William Bogert Newman (1834-1912), U.S. Navy officers, including correspondence, orders, regulations, reports, complaints and requests, and other official paper work typical to ships' officers. Includes 18 photos of William Bogert Newman and fellow officers and one abstract log. Vessels represented include the frigate PRESIDENT, frigate CONGRESS, ship INDEPENDENCE, and...
Dates: 1814 - 1898
Found in: Manuscripts

Olin J. Stephens II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-266
Abstract

Papers, 1937-1974, collected by, created by or regarding Olin J. Stephens. Collection includes information regarding the America's Cup races and the Stephen's yacht, STORMY WEATHER, built beginning late in 1933 and launched in May, 1934.

Dates: 1937 - 1974
Found in: Manuscripts

Orne-Cushing-Baldwin-Tappan family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-246
Abstract

Business and personal papers of four related families, of Salem, Duxbury, Roxbury, and other locations in the Boston, Mass., area, principally engaged in the maritime trades, although members of the Orne and Cushing families operated a brick works in Salem in the early 1800's.

Dates: 1723 - 1889
Found in: Manuscripts

Oscar F. Stanton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-057
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1850 - 1900
Found in: Manuscripts

Oystering Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-121
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1866 - 1963
Found in: Manuscripts

Papers of the Sebago Canoe Company

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-359
Dates: Majority of material found within 1933 - 2009
Found in: Manuscripts

Passenger Ship Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-283
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1896 - 1995
Found in: Manuscripts

Percy Chubb II; America's Cup Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-194
Abstract This collection contains approximately 125 pieces and 6 notebooks, kept and compiled by Commodore Percy Chubb II, of the N.Y.Y.C. from 1962 through 1974. These papers are relative primarily to the America's Cup trial races, ie. The observation trials and the final trials, and consists of sailing instructions for these races, crew lists, and race data sheets containing mark times and the order of finish for each trial race. The notebooks were evidently kept by Mr. Chubb, and contain his brief...
Dates: 1962 - 1974
Found in: Manuscripts

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