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,...

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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.

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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)

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...