Papers associated with the American Canoe Association including circulars, correspondence, ledgers, membership lists, minutes, minute books, newsletters, pamphlets and record books. Also includes business papers of clubs, the United States Olympic Committee and the International Canoe Federation.

Collected correspondence, maps, newsletters, clippings, philatelic material, certificates and photographs, relating to Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, Operation Deep Freeze, International Geophysical Year, and the DEW line.

Postcards, brochures, menus, time-tables, tickets and other ephemeral material collected by Mystic Seaport, relating to vessels that carried passengers, even if that vessel had other primary functions.

This collection contains the records of the Cruising Club of America, 1921-2005, including race records, correspondence, historical files, governing officers'; and committees' files, rules and etiquette, clippings, and yacht logbooks. Also included in the collection are the papers of John Parkinson Jr., William W. Nutting, and Arthur B. Homer.

Race records, membership information, newsletters, general correspondence, organization histories, scrapbooks, and other records, of the association, New England Intercollegiate Association (NEISA), and other regional associations. Includes A Study of Collegiate Sailing in the United States by Lester Rhoads and John Rousmaniere's History of the ICYRA; and extensive information concerning individual races and trophies presented.