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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

Reynolds Beal Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-048
Dates: 1880 - 1889

Richard Columbus Mears Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-311
Abstract Collection, 1816-1972, of Richard Columbus Mears. Includes letters to and from Mears and primarily his daughter Nellie Goodsell Mears, but also including his extended family, friends, and business associates discussing personal matters, financial matters, and news from home and abroad. The collection also contains personal accounts that include purchases Mears made on his many journeys for himself and his family and friends, papers detailing an inheritance dispute, and bills his daughter...
Dates: 1816 - 1972
Found in: Manuscripts

Robert Backus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-144

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 H. Baker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-124
Content Description

3 notebooks- boat measurement field notes 1 sketchbook for design #52, Sakonnet River Boat 1 device for measuring half models,for use by museum staff Plans and manuscripts

Dates: 1900

Robert H. Baker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-141

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