Manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hiram Hamilton Maxim Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-351
Abstract
Collection, 1925-1989, consists mainly of logbooks and notebooks kept by Hiram Hamilton Maxim for his boats, GANNET and GANNET II (built 1939), as well as several logbooks kept by his father, Hiram Percy Maxim. It also contains Hiram Hamilton’s notes and newspaper articles about improvements made to a hand-held Radio Direction Finder in addition to manuscripts and pictures for “Precision Coastal Piloting” and “Miscellaneous Piloting Notes and Other Useful Items”.
Dates:
1925 - 1989
Found in:
Manuscripts
Houche-Lamphere-Flint Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-329
Abstract
The Houche-Lamphere-Flint Collection contains Houche and Flint business and family correspondence, as well as Lamphere genealogy.
Dates:
1853 - 1948
Found in:
Manuscripts
Lucille M. Showalter Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-334
Abstract
Collection, 1851-1994, contains research papers for Lucille M. Showalter’s graduate work in American History classes taken at Connecticut College, University of Connecticut, and Mystic Seaport’s Munson Institute. Includes information on Schooner POLARIS (built as AMERICA, 1864) and the Arctic voyage in which Captain Charles F. Hall mysteriously died. Also includes information about the Inuit and members of the POLARIS crew as well as information on other Arctic voyages and whale men....
Dates:
1851-1999 (bulk 1969-1999)
Found in:
Manuscripts