Abstract This collection is comprised of 15 file follders contained in one document case. The first 12 folders contain shipping papers, etc, arranged chronologically between 1863 and 1884. Included here are outfitting bills and receipts, charter-parties, bills of lading, cargo manifests, letters to Alfred Pinkham and various port and consulate documents. Folder 13 has two "Fisherman's Shipping Papers" for schooner DIPLOMA, 1873, while folder 14 contains nine shipping articles for various schooners...

Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, charter parties, and accounts mentioning cargoes predominantly of hides, fruit, salt, and lumber. Includes letters and telegrams to Smalley as master of the bark JENNIE CUSHMAN and the schooner EMMA C. LATHAM and as agent for Francis C. Butman, a Boston shipping and commission merchant, in St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, and Goree, Senegal. Other vessels mentioned in the correspondence include schooners ARTHUR EGGLESO, ANNIE FAIRFAX, and WARREN...

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Collection contains 23 pieces and one volume. Includes bills of sale, bills of lading, towing receipts, a description of the loss of Schooner E. H. BRAZOS, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous waybills relative to the shipping activities of C. H. Rayner. Volume is freight accounts and port charges for Schooner QUICKSTEP, 1878

Description from Atkin & Co. From the Collection: The name Atkin has long been associated with the best in basic boats. If you are looking for "the right little boat" to build -- or have built -- or if you just like to dream over boat plans -- you'll be delighted with the wooden boat design collections of John (1918-1999) and William (1882-1962) Atkin.Having provided three generations with practical, well-proven wooden boat designs, the collection offers more than 300 designs including famed Atkin double-enders,...

Abstract This collection contains approximately 100 pieces of manuscript material having to do with vessels and a sawmill in which the Drummond Family had part interest. Included in the folders are a crew list, charter information, a survey report, shipbuilding account, cargo and outfitting accounts, and estate information and numerous expenses concerning the operation and sale of a sawmill in Winslow, Maine. Vessels represented are the schooners, MARY AND FRANCES, GEORGETOWN, and HIRAM AND GEORGE,...

Abstract Business and family correspondence, ships' bills and accounts, abstracts logs and journals, ratebooks, notebooks, disbursements, statements of general average, photos of ship paintings, family photos, Wendell genealogy, and other papers; and correspondence, research, clippings, and other papers (1900-1949) of F. Hinkley, A. Wendell, C. Cutler, and others, relating to George Blunt Wendell. The collection also contains reminiscences of George Blunt Wendell, 1847, of a visit to New Orleans and...

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This collection contains correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, crew lists, bills of lading, and charter parties for the barks OCEAN BRIDE and KREMLIN, merchant vessels carrying primarily lumber, grain and general cargo.

Abstract Business and personal correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, shipping and cargo records, marine insurance policies, articles of agreement, charter parties, bills of lading, and other documents, chiefly relating to the shipping activities of Daniel Walker Lord (1800-1880) and other family members, including William Jefferds (1753-1820), Nathaniel Lord (1776-1815), Lieut. Tobias Lord (1748-1808), and Tobias Lord (1778-1854), the family's shipping agent in New York City. Includes published...

Abstract The John F. Brooks Records total 111 volumes dated 1858 to 1915. The first 55 volumes are letterbooks, 1869-1915, 9 cashbooks follow, then 8 journals/daybooks dated 1877-1915. Following those are 8 summary journals, 6 trail balance books, 17 invoice books, 2 cargo books, and 3 miscellaneous record books. Volumes with entries prior to 1880 are primarily records of the M. Bartlett shipping business of which John Brooks was a partner. Matthew Bartlett died in May 1880,and thus for all practical...

Abstract The collection contains mostly incoming correspondence from Cuban exporters. There are numerous letters from the Cardenas firms of D. Ruiz Toledo, Smith & Co., and L. Soler & Co., C. Uhrback & Co., and Alfonso & Blanchard. Tow Matanzas firms and one in Sagua La Grande are also well represented. There are several letters to Churchill, Brown & Manson from their Boston office, and letters from customer and/or agents in St. Louis, New York and Canada. Monthly balance sheets...