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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

Registers of Seamen's Protection Certificates

 Collection
Identifier: other-09
Scope and Contents No copies of original certificates are available—the originals were kept by the seamen to whom they were issued. This information is taken from registers (lists) kept by the customs districts.The Registers of Seamen's Protection Certificates database contains 30,987 transcribed entries dating from 1796 to 1878. The records document certificates issued through the customs districts of Fall River, Gloucester, Marblehead, New Haven, New London, Newport,...
Dates: 1796 - 1878
Found in: Other Resources

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

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