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Records of Thomas Dunham's Nephew & Company

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-196
Abstract

This collection of the firm's papers contains both business and personal correspondence as well as as accounts, bills of sale and papers having to do with the firm's vessels in the coastal and overseas trade.

Dates: 1834-1929
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of Whitney, Cushing & Company

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-168
Abstract

The collection consists of seven business record books. Included are one volume containing invoices of cargo shipped and accounts of cargo sold, and several cash and sales journals recording cash paid and received during this period.

Dates: 1870 - 1897
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of Wilcox, Crittenden & Co.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-231
Abstract

Ledgers, journals, cashbooks, daybooks, payroll records, check stub books, and other materials.

Dates: 1869 - 1915
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of William R. Bowers & Co.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-024
Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, and other papers of Providence, Rhode Island merchant shipowners and agents. The papers relate to the ships MARY ANN, PANTHER, PROVIDENCE, and TRUMBULL, and the brigs AGENORIA, DIAMOND, and SMYRNA, which carried cotton, flour, coffee, rice, rum, and wine, and traded in the ports of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Cadiz, Spain, Java, Malava, Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia), Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Canton, China, Lime,...
Dates: 1818-1837
Found in: Manuscripts

Redford Webster Sargent Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-103
Abstract

This collection contains business and personal papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and an unfinished biography of Sargent by his son, Redford Ames Sargent. Included is a journal kept by Redford Ames Sargent aboard the ship THOMAS DANA of Boston during a voyage 1888-1889.

Dates: 1848 - 1936
Found in: Manuscripts

Research Collection for "The Centennial History of the United States Sailing Association"

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-270
Abstract

"The Centennial History of the United States Sailing Association" was published in 1997 by the US Sailing and written and edited by Henry H. Anderson, Jr., the historian for the United States Sailing Association, and Robert C. MacArthur. This collection is comprised of the materials; correspondence notes, regional association histories, class information, and yacht club histories, gathered during the research phase of the project.

Dates: 1887 - 1990
Found in: Manuscripts

Robert Bartlett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-132
Abstract

The collection primarily contains letters from Barlett to his close friend, Southmayd Hatch, an engineer with Socony Vacuum Company, relating to Barlett's travels in Greenland, Newfoundland, and the Arctic, and other mutual interests.

Dates: 1931 - 1946
Found in: Manuscripts

Robert Bruce Strout Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-210
Abstract

Sea journals, diary, account book, obituaries, and related papers. Includes journal describing Pacific whaling voyages (1855-1862), out of New Bedford, Mass., by ship ALICE MANDELL and barks CLEONE, MARTHA, and SALAMANDRE; diary detailing voyage of the CLEONE, chiefly an indictment against the master and first mate; and ships accounts (1868-1871) of the brig CAMILLE, engaged in West Indian trade. Persons represented include Strout's wife, Jane F. Strout.

Dates: 1855 - 1880
Found in: Manuscripts

Robert J. Walker Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-180
Abstract

Letters to C.W Lawrence, Collector of Customs at the Port of New York, dealing with the interpretation of tariff acts and enforcement of customs regulations, including information concerning import duties, drawbacks, expenses for maintaining revenue vessels and customs property, and the names of many vessels.

Dates: 1846 - 1848
Found in: Manuscripts

Robert Palmer Wilbur Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-020
Abstract

The collection consists of scattered papers and volumes including a diary (1863) containing information on shipbuilding. There are also account, bills, and receipts (1876-1881) concerning Wilbur's command of the Ship M.P. GRACE and two survey record books (1896-1899)

Dates: 1859-1928
Found in: Manuscripts

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