Whalers (Persons)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Ship’s Papers of President (Bark) of New Bedford
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-27
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers from two of the President’s whaling voyages: 1865-1869 under master Edmund Kelley, and 1869-1872 under master Eber C. Almy. The papers for the second of these voyages are scant. The collection also includes papers regarding the ship’s building and maintenance history which are unrelated to any specific voyage. Of additional note in this collection is a volume of sailing directions for Buzzards Bay published in New Bedford in 1821, which has since been...
Dates:
1821 - 1875; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1873
Ship’s Papers of the Robert Morrison (Bark) of New Bedford
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-19
Scope and Contents
This collection contains captain Andrew J. Mosher’s correspondence from a voyage of the Robert Morrison from 1880 to 1884, along with agent’s and owner’s memoranda and information about shipments of oil from this same time period. It also contains crew papers including accounts and permissions, government documents, a significant number of bills and receipts, and documents related to the condemnation and sale of the Robert Morrison. Researchers will also note diagrams of the bark’s cask...
Dates:
1879-1890
Ship’s Papers of the Thomas Hunt (Schooner) of Stonington
File — Flat file case Flat File
Identifier: 003-02-17
Scope and Contents
The collection includes the records of ten voyages of the Thomas Hunt between 1872 and 1884, including receipts and bills of sale, shareholders’ agreements, insurance certificates, crew lists and crew agreements, supplies and slops accounts, shipping papers, governmental documents such as foreign manifests and customs documents, and correspondence with ship’s agent Joseph N. Hancox.
Dates:
1872 - 1884
Charles Henry Wilbur papers
File — Box Multi-collection Box : [Barcode: 31116021976383]
Identifier: 003-02-16
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 69 letters to and from Wilbur, his mother, sister and brother in law, his friends, and two whaling agents, as well as a variety of other people involved in the life and death of this whaleman from New Jersey. The correspondence in this collection begins during Wilbur’s naval service in 1864 and continues through his whaling career and into the next generation of his sister's family, ending in 1916. It includes correspondence between members of his family and the U....
Dates:
1843 - 1916
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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Charles Henry Wilbur papers