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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

Oral history interviews

 Collection
Identifier: SA-Coll-002
Dates: 1955 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1965 - 1990
Found in: Sound Archives

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

Peter Strickland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-069
Abstract

The Peter Strickland Papers consists of 20 volumes contained in four document cases, which span the career of this Connecticut shipmaster, merchant, and diplomat from 1864 through 1922.

Dates: 1864 - 1920
Found in: Manuscripts

Philip L. Rhodes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-080
Abstract Plans produced by Philip L. Rhodes from as early as his 1916 hydroplane to a ketch of 1970. Plans depict all types of vessels from small recreational dinghies to large yachts and commercial cargo, as well as many one design and class boats. Very little military work is included. The work of many other well-known architects appears within this collection from their time as employees in the firm. This material complements the time line of the material contained within the Philip L. Rhodes...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1916 - 1970

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