Showing Collections: 421 - 430 of 494
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
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
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-122
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-245
Abstract
Rough drafts of recollections and short stories. Includes "Some War Remembrances Aboard U.S. Sloop Richmond" (1863 Mar.); personal recollections of the Battle of the Mobile Bay, relating to Weir's experiences as assistant engineer; recollections of an incident with dynamite at Cairo, Ill. (ca. 1864); "Buttons", a fictional maritime tale (ca. 1890); "Jessica Snow", fragment of a fictional love story (ca. 1890); pencil sketches of sharks, gentoos, flying fish, etc.; and miscellaneous and...
Dates:
1864-ca.1890
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-163
Abstract
Logs, navigator's notebooks, scrapbooks, guest registers, notes, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, and other papers, chiefly relating to Stephen's activities as navigator and/or captain of various vessels in long distance racing, but also reflecting his and his brother, Olin Stephens' personal and business affairs. Includes materials relating to the yawls DORADE and STORMY WEATHER, winners of the Transatlantic and Fastnet races, and races aboard his personal sloop MUSTANG; his...
Dates:
1931 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-337
Abstract
Collection, 1938-1964, consists mainly of U.S. Merchant Service instructor training manuals for Sheepshead Bay, New York, New York and officer’s training at Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut. It also contains logbooks and papers related to shipping.
Dates:
1938 - 1964
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-056
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-242
Abstract
Correspondence and personal papers; certificates and membership cards; information relating to various vessels on which Decker served, reflecting the diversity of American shipping during the first half of the 20th century; and diary (1936-1937) recording voyages aboard M.S. NEW ORLEANS and S.S. COLDBROOK. Vessels represented include S.S. ISAAC T. MANN, S.S. ALCOA GUARD, and others owned by the Alcoa Steamship Company; S.S. SEACLIFFE, and the S.S. LEHIGH which was torpedoed by the Germans in...
Dates:
1919 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-064
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-274
Abstract
Thirty-five daily journals of Samuel A. Beebe (1843-1897) of East Lyme, Connecticut. The journals include details of Beebe's life on shore and on fishing and trading voyages, including cargo, daily catch numbers, location of fishing grounds, and various ports of call along the east coast from Key West to Nova Scotia.
Dates:
1863 - 1897
