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Buddington Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-257
Abstract Papers of and relating to whaling masters James M. Buddington, Sidney O. Budington, cabin boy James W. Buddington, and other family members. Including protection certificate, death certificates, applications for admittance to Sailors Snug Harbor, and newspaper articles about Leroy Buddington's brief escape from a state hospital and Captain Sidney O. Budington's association with the Eskimo's and Charles F. Hall's arctic exploration. The collection also includes information relating to the...
Dates: 1706-1986 (bulk 1830-1863)
Found in: Manuscripts

Burgess-Donaldson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-011
Abstract

Plans produced by W. Starling Burgess from the mid-1920's to the mid-1930's while working in several partnerships. Plans are primarily for sailing yachts, and some one design classes are represented, including M class sloops and 12 meters. Drawings for the America's Cup defenders ENTERPRISE (1930) and RAINBOW (1934) are included.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1907 - 1934

Burgess-Wolff Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-043
Content Description

Material from the estate of W. Starling Burgess

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950

Calista M. Stover Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-105
Abstract

The essence of this collection is a series of diaries and journals kept by Calista Stover and her daughter on several voyages by the Ship DANIEL BARNES between 1882 and 1891. Joseph Stover was Master of the vessel and ports of call included Honolulu, Australia, and Japan.



Dates: 1859 - 1881
Found in: Manuscripts

Capt. George W. Duffy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-309
Abstract

This collection consists of documents collected by George W. Duffy concerning his supposed death during World War II and actual internment in a Prisoner of War camp in Java.

Dates: 1942 - 1945
Found in: Manuscripts

Capt. John W. Carter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-204
Abstract This collection contains 5 volumes and a photograph of Capt. John Carter. Three volumes are Carters' journals for voyages in the Bark RAMBLER, while the two remaining volumes are account books containing crew accounts (Bark RAMBLER), and Carter's vessel accounts with the owners of Ship ADALINE and RAMBLER. Journal entries are generally brief, with emphasis on weather and navigational information. The account books are more detailed. Crew members are identified and Carter's vessel accounts...
Dates: 1874 - 1880
Found in: Manuscripts

Capt. Robert P. Beebe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-125
Abstract

Blueprints and original plans drawn and collected by Captain Robert P. Beebe for traditional small craft, especially sharpies and canoes, and ocean-going passagemakers.

Dates: 1946 - 1988

Capt. Robert P. Beebe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-286
Abstract The Captain Robert P. Beebe Collection consists of correspondence from 1946 to 1988; design data consisting of notebooks, computer analyses, and correspondence with both owners and builders; drafts of published materials (Voyaging Under Power, 1975, magazine articles for Rudder, Yachting, and various other yachting publications); drafts of unpublished material (navigation book, Adventures in Small Craft Design); clippings from magazines and newspapers; technical data and product data; and...
Dates: 1946 - 1988
Found in: Manuscripts

Captain Alexander Hallett Holway Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-297
Abstract This collection consists of the papers relating to the voyages of Alexander Hallett Holway (1824-c. 1909) as captain of the trading vessels ARETHUSA (Bark), ALEXANDER (Ship), BOSTON LIGHT (Ship), and ORPHEUS (Ship) between 1852 and 1864. Holway's trading voyages took him to San Francisco, the Puget Sound, Chile, Australia, Calcutta, and Liverpool. Documents include ship's manifests, bills of lading, crew lists, charter-parties, receipts, account books, photographs, newspaper clippings,...
Dates: 1853-1865, 1930-c.2000
Found in: Manuscripts

Carl C. Cutler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-100
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, and other materials, relating to Cutler's research projects. Includes manuscripts of his books Queens of the Western Ocean (1961) about American packet ships and Greyhounds of the Sea, the Story of the American Clipper Ship (1930) and various articles written by Cutler.

Dates: 1901 - 1966
Found in: Manuscripts

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Leviathan (Steamship) 1
Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1