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Whitehall Boat Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-189
Abstract Correspondence, research notes, photographs, clippings, and other papers, relating to the history and construction of Whitehall boats (pulling boats developed in the 1820s near Whitehall St., New York, N.Y., used originally as workboats but later for recreation), principally pertaining to the AMERICAN STAR, a Whitehall boat, presented to Marquis de Lafayette in New York in 1825. Includes photographs and other information for John Gardner's article on the AMERICAN STAR published in The Log of...
Dates: 1959 - 1967
Found in: Manuscripts

William and John Atkin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-145
Description from Atkin & Co. The name Atkin has long been associated with the best in basic boats. If you are looking for "the right little boat" to build -- or have built -- or if you just like to dream over boat plans -- you'll be delighted with the wooden boat design collections of John (1918-1999) and William (1882-1962) Atkin.Having provided three generations with practical, well-proven wooden boat designs, the collection offers more than 300 designs including famed Atkin double-enders,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1919-1993

William Butler Duncan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-215
Abstract

Correspondence, memos, printed material, and other papers, reflecting Duncan's yachting career.

Dates: 1902 - 1932
Found in: Manuscripts

William C. Hall Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-054
Abstract

This is a collection of correspondence, notes, accounts, and insurance claims (Middletown Insurance Company, Norwich Insurance Company), relating to Hall's business activities. Vessels represented include the brig HOPE, sloop LAZY, schooner RESOLUTION, schooner CHARLES, schooner PLANTER and ship GEORGE.

Dates: 1804 - 1823
Found in: Manuscripts

William Earle Papers

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Identifier: MSS-Coll-028
Abstract Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, and other papers relating to the operation of the bark AURA, the brigs ARIA, IDA MCLEOD, ISADOR, NEW ERA, and PERSEVERANCE, and the schooners AMOS FALKENBURG, D.W. VAUGHAN, HANNAH BLACKMAN, INO, ROBERT J. MERCER, and WM. O. IRISH, which carried coal, cotton, sugar, and foodstuffs and traded in U.S., and West Indian ports. Correspondents include Charles H. Arnold, Hiram Baker, David P. Davis, Samuel A. Emerson, Samuel M. Gifford, George K. Rackett,...
Dates: 1834-1876
Found in: Manuscripts

William Ellery Maxson Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-166
Abstract

Diaries recording shipyard work, weather, and personal activities. Topics include his activities as partner in the Maxson, Fish & Co. Shipyard and the Civil War.

Dates: 1857 - 1868
Found in: Manuscripts

William F. Saunders Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-333
Abstract

Correspondence, correspondence transcript, letter book, diary copy, and scrapbook of William F. Saunders and his career as a keeper of the Quonochontaug Life Saving Station during the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1872 - 1900
Found in: Manuscripts

William Gano Pierce Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-375
Abstract

This collection consists of papers relating to William G. Pierce’s life, including his education and his time stationed in Shanghai, China. The collection consists of correspondence with his parents and brother, gifts sent from China to his father in Providence, Rhode Island, newspapers, journals, and other materials.

Dates: 1799, 1838-1889 (bulk 1849-1855)
Found in: Manuscripts

William Garden Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-096
Dates: Majority of material found within 1906 - 1999

William Garden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-299
Abstract

Collection, 1931-2001, consists of correspondence, business papers, published articles, photocopies of photographs and miscellaneous papers. The material in this collection complements the William Garden Collection (SP Coll. 96) in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library.

Dates: 1931 - 2001
Found in: Manuscripts

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Naval architects--United States 25
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Whale oil 6
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Death at sea 5
Groton (Conn.) 5
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Eastern Ice Yachting Association 1
Hillman Shipyard 1
Isaac Jeanes & Co. 1
Leviathan (Steamship) 1
Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1