Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection: Finding Aid
priTEC
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection
Identifier/Call Number: priTEC
Physical Description:
65.16 Linear Feet
(2 boxes, 145 folders, 4 volumes)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1700-1990
Date (bulk): 1800-1935
Abstract: The Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon
Maritime Collection contains 190 items that pertain to commercial, naval, and recreational
maritime-related activities primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Materials
date from approximately 1700 to 1990, with the bulk dating from 1800-1935. The collection
consists of prints (engravings, etchings, aquatints, and lithographs), photographs,
manuscript materials, publications, portfolios and bound volumes, and a single painting. The
items deal primarily with whaling, yachting, and naval battles, and the vessels and people
involved in these activities.
Language of Material: Primarily English, with some
French.
General
Finding aid last updated on January 27, 2016.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
This collection was donated to the Huntington Library by Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon
in August 2006 and February 2008. Most of the items in the collection were donated in 2008;
the 2006 donation consists of the following 26 items: priTEC 0165-priTEC 0190.
Access
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Biographical Note
Theodore G. Congdon (1929-2012) lived in the Pasadena area of southern California with his
wife Eleanor, where he worked as an accountant. He grew up in New England, one of five sons
of the socially prominent Congdon family that founded Congdon & Carpenter Co. in 1790.
The firm dealt in iron, steel, hardware, carriage and saddlery goods, and paints and oils,
and was one of the oldest family-owned and operated businesses in the United States until it
was sold in 1977.
Ted Congdon's deep interest in maritime history led him to amass a variety of prints,
documents, periodicals, and artifacts related to whaling, yachting, and naval history, the
bulk of which forms the Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection.
Scope and Content
The Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection contains 190 items that pertain
to commercial, naval, and recreational maritime-related activities primarily in the United
States and the United Kingdom. Materials date from approximately 1700 to 1990, with the bulk
dating from 1800-1935. The collection consists of prints (engravings, etchings, aquatints,
and lithographs), photographs, manuscript materials, publications, portfolios and bound
volumes, and a single painting. The items deal primarily with whaling, yachting, and naval
battles, and the vessels and people involved in these activities.
Materials are arranged in three series: Commercial, Naval, and Recreational. These series
are further divided into subseries based on format. All items are fully inventoried, and all
printers, artists, and publishers are indexed by name.
The collection contains materials as diverse as early 18th-century engravings of whaling
expeditions, letters from sailors working on whaling vessels during the 19th century,
photographs of yachts competing for the America's Cup in the early 20th century,
19th-century lithographs of naval ships engaged in battle, and letters of marque and safe
conduct signed by presidents of the United States, from George Washington to James Buchanan.
These items offer a wealth of information regarding the vessels that operated throughout
three centuries, as well as the fishermen, sailors, and sportsmen who manned them.
Existence and Location of Copies
Related materials in the Huntington Library
Periodicals donated by Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon as part of the Theodore G. and
Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection:
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The Blue Peter : a magazine of sea
travel
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Nautical Quarterly
Manuscript volumes donated by Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon as part of the Theodore G.
and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection:
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A Treatise Concerninge the Navye Royall, of England, Wrytten
by John Montgomery, with an Addic[i]on thereto, In Anno: 1588 (mssHM
70177)
-
James Bradley remarks on Board HMS Ajax From July the 18th,
1809 (mssHM 70178)
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Watch Station and Quarter Bill of His Majesty's Sloop
Harlequin, John Weeks, Esq. Commander., ca. 1820 (mssHM 70179)
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Horatio Thomas Austin log of the HMS Salamander (Steam
Sloop) and the HMS Medea (Steam Sloop), 1833-1834 (mssHM 70180)
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Richard Malone log of the HMS Harrier, 1835-1839 (mssHM
70181)
Related collections:
-
Jay T. Last Collection of Maritime Prints and
Ephemera
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John Haskell Kemble Maritime Collection
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following three series, which are further divided into
subseries by genre:
- Series I. Commercial
- Subseries A. Manuscripts
- Subseries B. Prints
- Subseries C. Publications
- Series II. Naval
- Subseries A. Manuscripts
- Subseries B. Prints
- Series III. Recreational
- Subseries A. Paintings
- Subseries B. Photographs
- Subseries C. Prints
- Subseries D. Publications
Items are arranged numerically by call number and described in the following format:
-
Title. Date
- Artist(s) (when known and when applicable). Printer(s). Publisher(s)
Items are housed individually in folders, and are located in flat files or (when noted in
the collection contents list) in one flat-top box.
A number of brief notes made by the donor regarding several items in the collection is
available in Box 1.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Boats and boating -- Pictorial works.
Hunting -- Pictorial works.
Lighthouses -- Pictorial works.
Naval battles -- Pictorial works.
Ships -- Pictorial works.
Shipwrecks -- Pictorial works.
Whales -- Pictorial works.
Whaling -- Pictorial works.
Yachts -- Pictorial works.
Chromolithographs.
Contracts.
Ephemera.
Engravings.
Handbills.
Leaflets (printed works)
Lithographs.
Manuscripts.
Passenger lists.
Paintings.
Periodical illustrations.
Periodicals.
Printed ephemera.
Promotional materials.
Relief prints.
Series I. Commercial
approximately
1700-1981
Physical Description: 74
Items
Scope and Content
This series contains 74 items pertaining to commercial maritime activities (primarily
whaling) from the early 1700s through the middle of the 19th century, with reproductions
from as late as 1981. The series is comprised mainly of prints of whaling ships, sailors
in boats engaged in the acts of hunting and harvesting whales, and manuscript letters
sent during or regarding these whaling expeditions. Notable items include a series of
engraved hand-colored Dutch whaling prints by Adolf van der Laan and Sieuwert van der
Meulen dating from approximately 1700-1730 (priTEC 0032-0037), and a series of
lithographs printed by J.H. Bufford's Lith. illustrating the great whaling disaster of
1871, in which 33 American whaling ships were trapped in Arctic ice off the coast of
Alaska, and subsequently abandoned (priTEC 0052-0056).
Box 1
Subseries A. Manuscripts
1798-1866
Box 1
Bill of sale between John C. Whitridge of New Bedford, Mass., and William
Hathaway, of New Bedford, for part of the profiteer Potomka [printed form filled in,
4 pages].
priTEC 0004
1854
Box 1
Bill of sale between Lot Phinney of Osterville, Mass., and William
Hathaway, for part of the ship Niger [printed form filled in, 4 pages].
priTEC 0005
1865
Box 1
Bill of sale between Robert Farley of Boston, Mass., and William Hathaway,
and Matthew Luce of New Bedford, for part of the ship Statira [printed form filled
in, 4 pages].
priTEC 0006
1848
Box 1
An outward entry of goods entitled to drawback, intended to be shipped ...
by Henry Prince and Nathaniel Bowditch in the Ship Astrea [printed form filled in, 1
leaf].
priTEC 0007
1798
Box 1
Whaling signals on board ship J. Perry [handwritten document with name of
4th Officer Gifford, 1 leaf].
priTEC 0008
after 1852
Box 1
Letter from Frank Richardson, Cumberland Inlet, to his mother in Lawrence,
Mass. [3 pages].
priTEC 0009
1866 October 10
Box 1
Letter from Captain Richard Luce, Jr., New Bedford, Mass., to Dr. Leroy M.
Yale, Holmes Hole, Mass. [1 page].
priTEC 0010
1847 November 20
Box 1
Letter from Captain Richard Luce, Jr., on the Ship Margaret Scott, to Dr.
Leroy M. Yale [2 pages].
priTEC 0011
1849 July 10
Box 1
Letter from Captain Richard Luce, Jr., on the Ship Margaret Scott at sea,
to Dr. Leroy M. Yale [1 page].
priTEC 0012
1849 August 17
Box 1
Letter from Captain Richard Luce, Jr., on the Ship Margaret Scott, to Dr.
Leroy M. Yale [2 pages].
priTEC 0013
1849
Box 1
Letter from Captain Thomas Burdett, off Paita, to William Hathaway [3
pages].
priTEC 0014
1854 October 22
Box 1
Letter from Captain Thomas Peakes, Ship Julian [?] at sea, to William
Hathaway [3 pages].
priTEC 0015
1856 March 30
Box 1
Letter from Royal Thurber to William Hathaway about recruiting ship crews
[1 page].
priTEC 0016
1856 [July] 20
Box 1
Letter from E. Wyszynski, Louisville, Kentucky, to William Hathaway about
his son, Eustace Wyszynski [3 pages].
priTEC 0017
1864 April 4
Box 1
Letter from Captain Jacob L. Cleveland to William Hathaway [3
pages].
priTEC 0018
1857 March 27
Box 1
Letter from Captain Jacob L. Cleveland, on the Barque Luce, at Talcahuano,
to William Hathaway [4 pages].
priTEC 0019
1860 February 13
Box 1
Letter from S. P. Hinegar, Honolulu, Hawaii, to William Hathaway [2
pages].
priTEC 0020
1860 October 13
Box 1
Letter from Captain Jacob L. Cleveland, Talcahuano, to William Hathaway [4
pages].
priTEC 0021
1861 March 18
Box 1
Letter from William Standish Fuller to Mallichi Ellis [i.e. Malachi
Ellis?], Mattapoisett, Rochester, Mass. [2 pages].
priTEC 0022
1834 August 19
Subseries B. Prints
approximately
1700-1981
The chase.
priTEC 0023
1855 January 20
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wade, William,
active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Lowering the boats.
priTEC 0024
1855 January 20
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wade, William,
active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Laying on.
priTEC 0025
1855 January 20
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wade, William,
active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
The flurry.
priTEC 0026
1855 January 20
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wade, William,
active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Cutting in.
priTEC 0027
1855 January 20
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wade, William,
active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Trying out.
priTEC 0028
1855 January 20
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wade, William,
active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
The Greenland whale.
priTEC 0029
1894
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Frederick
Warne and Co.
2ème Ordre Cétacés : Pêche de la Baleine franche (Balæna mysticetus,
L.)
priTEC 0030
1849
Scope and Contents
Artists: Traviès,
Édouard, 1809-
Printers: Fournier (Firm)
Pêche de la baleine, harponnement.
priTEC 0031
1827
Scope and Contents
Artists: Couché,
François-Louis, 1782-1849
Running from the whale the pike being fast in her, or sitting upon
the Spanish wheel-barrow.
priTEC 0032
approximately
1700-1730
Scope and Contents
Artists: Laan, Adolf van
der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van
der
Shooting, beating, and sticking a great fish with
tusk.
priTEC 0033
approximately
1700-1730
Scope and Contents
Artists: Laan, Adolf van
der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van
der
The ship sailing out of the ice.
priTEC 0034
approximately
1700-1730
Scope and Contents
Artists: Laan, Adolf van
der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van
der
The ice bear taken and kill'd with pikes.
priTEC 0035
approximately
1700-1730
Scope and Contents
Artists: Laan, Adolf van
der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van
der
They stand ready to stick ye whale upon her head her tail being
upwards.
priTEC 0036
approximately
1700-1730
Scope and Contents
Artists: Laan, Adolf van
der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van
der
The whale is troubled and turns her self whilst people are sticking
her.
priTEC 0037
approximately
1700-1730
Scope and Contents
Artists: Laan, Adolf van
der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van
der
The perils of the whaler : harpooning the great sea monster from the
bow of a frail boat.
priTEC 0038
©1910
Scope and Contents
Artists: Gleason, J.
Duncan (Joe Duncan), 1881-1959
Publishers:
Leslie-Judge Company; Charles Schweinler Press
Mitchell & Croasdale successors to G. W. Ridgway & Co.
dealers in sperm, whale, lard & tanners oil, candles, rice, &c. no. 30 Nth
Wharves, above Arch St., Philadelphia.
priTEC 0039
approximately
1856-1858
Scope and Contents
Artists: Rease, W.
H.
Publishers: Wagner & M'Guigan
Wild Ranger.
priTEC 0040
approximately 1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: Hughes, J.
(Artist)
Devonshire.
priTEC 0041
approximately 1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: Silva, Joseph de
(Artist)
Young America.
priTEC 0042
approximately 1901
Sweepstakes.
priTEC 0043
approximately 1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: McFarlane,
D.
Resolute.
priTEC 0044
approximately 1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: Lai, Sung, active
1850-1885
Isaac Webb.
priTEC 0045
approximately 1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: Hughes, J.
(Artist)
Courier (built in 1822).
priTEC 0046
approximately 1901
Harvest Queen.
priTEC 0047
approximately 1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: Hughes, J.
(Artist)
Sovereign of the Seas.
priTEC 0048
approximately 1901
Niagara.
priTEC 0049
approximately 1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: Buttersworth,
James Edward, 1817-1894
Northern Light.
priTEC 0050
approximately 1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: Lane, Fitz Henry,
1804-1865
Pêche au cachalot sur les côtes du Méxique.
priTEC 0051
approximately
1837-1866
Scope and Contents
Artists: LeBreton, Louis,
1818-1866
Printers: Imprimerie Lemercier et cie
Publishers: Dusacq et cie
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl.
1.
priTEC 0052
©1872
Scope and Contents
Artists: Newell, John
Perry, 1831-1898
Printers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin,
1804-1885
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl.
2.
priTEC 0053
©1872
Scope and Contents
Artists: Newell, John
Perry, 1831-1898
Printers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin,
1804-1885
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl.
3.
priTEC 0054
©1872
Scope and Contents
Artists: Newell, John
Perry, 1831-1898
Printers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin,
1804-1885
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl.
4.
priTEC 0055
©1872
Scope and Contents
Printers: J.H. Bufford's
Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl.
5.
priTEC 0056
©1872
Scope and Contents
Printers: J.H. Bufford's
Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of the ships Amelia Wilson
& Castor off the Isle of Bouro, with their boats & crew in the various
process of fishing, showing the manner the spermacetti [sic] whales are caught,
also the mode of cutting them into the ship, & boiling the oil upon
deck.
priTEC 0057
1825 January 1
Scope and Contents
Artists: Huggins, William
John, 1781-1845; Sutherland, Thomas,
approximately 1785-approximately 1825
Publishers: Huggins, William John,
1781-1845
South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of boats attacking a sperm
whale from descriptions given by experienced masters and officers in the South Sea
Fishery.
priTEC 0058
1834
Scope and Contents
Artists: Huggins, William
John, 1781-1845; Duncan, Edward,
1804-1882
Publishers: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845
Northern Whale Fishery. A representation of the ship Harmony of
Hull, & other vessels with their boats & crews in the various process of
attacking and killing the whale in Davis Straits and Greenland, with the mode of
flinching & taking in the blubber.
priTEC 0059
1829 March
Scope and Contents
Artists: Huggins, William
John, 1781-1845; Duncan, Edward,
1804-1882
Publishers: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845
A ship on the north-west coast cutting in her last right
whale.
priTEC 0060
after 1843
Scope and Contents
Artists: Russell,
Benjamin, 1804-1885; Mayer, A.
(Lithographer)
Printers: Imprimerie Lemercier et cie
[Sailing vessel in Arctic ice.]
priTEC 0061
approximately
1880-1890
Scope and Contents
Artists: Bradford,
William, 1823-1892
New York: the Black Ball packet "Orpheus" leaving the East River in
1835 by John Stobart.
priTEC 0062
©1969 ;
©1979
Scope and Contents
Artists: Stobart, John,
1929-
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Maritime Heritage Prints,
Inc.
Whaling in the Arctic : the Charles W. Morgan 'cutting in' in 1884
by John Stobart.
priTEC 0063
©1978
Scope and Contents
Artists: Stobart, John,
1929-
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Maritime Heritage Prints,
Inc.
Pêche de la Baleine. Whale-Fishery.
priTEC 0064
approximately 1835
Scope and Contents
Artists: Garneray, Louis,
1783-1857; Martens, Frederic
Printers: Goupil &
Vibert
Publishers: Goupil & Vibert
Pêche du Cachalot. Chachalot Fishery.
priTEC 0065
approximately 1835
Scope and Contents
Artists: Garneray, Louis,
1783-1857; Martens, Frederic
Printers: Goupil &
Vibert
Publishers: Goupil & Vibert
Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its
varieties.
priTEC 0066
©1871
Scope and Contents
Artists: Russell,
Benjamin, 1804-1885
Publishers:
J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Sperm whaling with its varieties.
priTEC 0067
©1870
Scope and Contents
Artists: Russell,
Benjamin, 1804-1885
Publishers:
J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Brig "Diomede" of Salem - 1809.
priTEC 0135
©1978
Scope and Contents
Artists: Cross,
Roy
Eliza of Providence January 1802.
priTEC 0136
1802-1840 ([reproduction]
©1981
Scope and Contents
Artists: Toulza, J.
Etne.
Printers: Meriden Gravure Company
Publishers: Peabody Museum of
Salem
The American clipper Comet, 2477 tons.
priTEC 0137
1977
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wilcox, L. A.
(Leslie A.)
Publishers: Parker Gallery (London, England)
Sovereign of the Seas.
priTEC 0138
©1978
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wilcox, L. A.
(Leslie A.)
Publishers: Mill Pond Press
Gloucester schooner "L. A. Dunton" off
Soundings.
priTEC 0146
©1978
Scope and Contents
Artists: Mecray,
John
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers:
Mystic Seaport Museum
Sailing day, Nantucket, in 1841.
priTEC 0150
©1974 ;
[reproduction] ©1979
Scope and Contents
Artists: Stobart, John,
1929-
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Maritime Heritage Prints,
Inc.
Hudson River sloop Phillip R. Paulding.
priTEC 0151
©1973
Scope and Contents
Artists: Buttersworth,
James Edward, 1817-1894
Publishers:
Aaron Ashley, Inc.
Subseries C. Publications
1788-1855
Box 1
Arrêt du Conseil D'État du Roi, portant prohibition, à l'entrée dans
la Royaume, des Huiles éstrangères provenant de la Pêche de la
Baleine.
priTEC 0001
1788
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Imprimerie
royale (France)
Box 1
An account of the loss of the Essex, from having been struck by a
whale in the South Seas ; with some particulars of the sufferings of her
crew.
priTEC 0002
1825
Scope and Contents
Author: Chappel, Thomas
Publishers: American Sunday-School Union
Box 1
"An American Whaling Voyage". priTEC 0003
1855 January 20
Scope and Contents
Booklet containing pasted newspaper clipping "Whaling" (6 pages) from
Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion
Publishers: Ballou,
Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Series II. Naval
1703-1977
Physical Description: 42
Items
Scope and Content
This series contains 42 items pertaining to naval vessels and battles, primarily
related to the United States Navy, the Royal Navy of Great Britain, and privateering
vessels representing both entities from the early 1700s through the middle of the 19th
century, with reproductions from as late as 1977. The series is comprised mainly of
printed letters of marque and letters of safe conduct signed by presidents of the United
States from George Washington through to James Buchanan, and printed images of famous
ships and naval battles. Of note are five letters related to British naval matters from
1703-1804 including two from Admiral Horatio Nelson (priTEC 0184-0188), a British order
of battle and sailing with hand-colored flag charts from maneuvers near Alicante, Spain,
in 1811 (priTEC 0068), and a bound King William IV association copy of a series of views
illustrating the clash between the Shannon and the Chesapeake during the War of 1812
(priTEC 0082).
Subseries A. Manuscripts
1703-1811
Order of battle and sailing. priTEC 0068
1811 December 20
Box 1
Order from Sir Evan Nepean, Admiralty Office, to Sir Richard Bickerton to
"detain in the Mediterranean all the line of Battle Ships ..." [6
pages].
priTEC 0184
1802 August 4
Scope and Contents
Marked "Duplicate, Most Secret."
Box 1
Order from Horatio Nelson to Sir William Hamilton [2 pages]. priTEC 0185
1800 February 28
Box 1
Order from Horatio Nelson to Richard H. Moubray to take command of the
Thunder [2 pages].
priTEC 0186
1804 July 16
Box 1
Order from the Great Britain Privy Council to Wriothesley, Duke of Bedford,
Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Middlesex, concerning
deserting seamen [1 page].
priTEC 0187
1703 May 4
Box 1
Order from the Great Britain Admiralty to Lord Shuldham [1
page].
priTEC 0188
1778 March 16
Subseries B. Prints
1776-1977
H. M. S. Carysfort, 26 guns.
priTEC 0069
approximately
1838-1845
Scope and Contents
Artists: Vernon, H.
John
Printers: Day & Haghe
Publishers: Hinton, A.; Ackermann and
Co.
Breaking up of the Agamemnon.
priTEC 0070
1870
Scope and Contents
Artists: Haden, Francis
Seymour, 1818-1910
American ships X frigates Constellation 38 and Boston 28, 1800.
priTEC 0071
1927
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wales, George
Canning, 1868-1940
A view of the grand fleet in the order of sailing under the command
of Adm. Earl Howe, in 1790 is dedicated by permission to his most gracious majesty
William the fourth.
priTEC 0072
1834 June 1
Scope and Contents
Artists: Havell, Robert,
1793-1878
Publishers: Colnaghi Son & Co.
This representation of His Majesty's Ship Majestic, 57 guns, John
Hayes, Esq. Captain, meeting with two French frigates, - an American private ship
of war, a Spanish Lima ship, - & a brig on the 3rd of Feby. 1814, in Latde. 37
N. and Longde. 20 W. - and capturing one of the frigates : is by gracious
permission dedicated to his most excellent majesty William IVth, by his majesty's
faithful subject and servant, John Haynes, Capt., R.N., C.B.
priTEC 0073
approximately
1830-1837
Scope and Contents
Artists: Gilbert,
Pierre-Julien; Hunt, Charles, active
1825-1857
Publishers: Ackermann and Co.
The memorable engagement of Captn. Pearson of the Serapis, with Paul
Jones of the Bon Homme Richard & his squadron, Sep. 23,
1779.
priTEC 0074
1780 December 12 ;
1781
Scope and Contents
Artists: Paton, Richard,
1717-1791
Printers: Fittler, James, 1758-1835; Lerpinière, Daniel, 1745-1785
Publishers:
Boydell, John, 1720-1804
To the memory of the brave Capt. John Harvey... of His Majesty's
Ship the Brunswick this print representing the Brunswick after breaking the
enemy's line ... on the first of June 1794 grappled to, and engaging Le Vengeur
with her starboard guns, and totally dismasting L' Achille in an attempt to board
on the larboard quarter is respectfully inscribed by Nicholas
Pocock.
priTEC 0075
1796 February 16
Scope and Contents
Artists: Pocock, Nicholas,
1740?-1821; Pollard, Robert,
1755-1838
Publishers: Pocock, Nicholas, 1740?-1821
Spoils of war : portraits of the French and Spanish ships taken by
Lord Anson, Captain Buckle and Sir E Hawk in the year 1747.
priTEC 0076
1748-1751 ([reproduction]
©1977
Scope and Contents
Artists: Short, Robert
(Artist)
Printers: Headley Brothers (Firm)
Publishers: Boydell, John, 1720-1804;
Margary, Harry
Battle of the Nile, the attack at sunset.
priTEC 0077
1799 February
Scope and Contents
Artists: Dodd, Robert,
1748-1815
Publishers: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
Battle of the Nile, at 10 o'clock at night.
priTEC 0078
1799 February
Scope and Contents
Artists: Dodd, Robert,
1748-1815
Publishers: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
Battle of the Nile, near midnight.
priTEC 0079
1799 February
Scope and Contents
Artists: Dodd, Robert,
1748-1815
Publishers: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
Battle of the Nile, on the ensuing morning.
priTEC 0080
1799 February
Scope and Contents
Artists: Dodd, Robert,
1748-1815
Publishers: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
Six engraved outlines of ships of war, from a first-rate to a
cutter.
priTEC 0081
1815
Scope and Contents
Artists: Pocock, Nicholas,
1740?-1821; Rawle, S.
Publishers: Pocock, Nicholas,
1740?-1821
[A series of four views, to illustrate the naval action fought on
the first day of June, 1813, between the English frigate Shannon, and the American
frigate Chesapeake.]
priTEC 0082
1830
Scope and Contents
Artists: Schetky, John
Christian, 1778-1874; Haghe, Louis,
1806-1885
Printers: Day, William, 1797-1845
Publishers: Smith, Elder, and Co.
[Liber nauticus and instructor in the art of marine
drawing.]
priTEC 0164
1805
Scope and Contents
Artists: Serres, John
Thomas, 1759-1825
Publishers: Orme, Edward
By the president of the United States of America. Suffer the brig
Peggy of Newport ...
priTEC 0165
1797 ;
1800
John Adams, president of the United States of America, to all who
shall see these presents, greeting: know ye ...
priTEC 0166
1800
John Adams, president of the United States of America, to all who
shall see these presents, greeting: ...
priTEC 0167
1798
By the president of the United States of America. Suffer the ...
priTEC 0168
approximately
1801-1809
Scope and Contents
Artists: Savage, Edward,
1761-1817
Thomas Jefferson, president des Etats Unis d'Amerique. A tous ceux
qui les presentes, verront: ...
priTEC 0169
1802
By the president of the United States of America. Suffer the ship
Maria of New York, James Davis ...
priTEC 0170
1809
Scope and Contents
Artists: Savage, Edward,
1761-1817
James Madison, president of the United States of America, to all who
shall see these presents, greeting: ...
priTEC 0171
1813
James Madison, president of the United States of America, to all who
shall see these presents, greeting: ...
priTEC 0172
approximately
1809-1817
To captain ___ commander of the private armed ___ called the
...
priTEC 0173
1812
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the brig
Juno of Providence ...
priTEC 0174
1817
Scope and Contents
Artists: Savage, Edward,
1761-1817
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the brig
Wm. Thacher ...
priTEC 0175
1819
Scope and Contents
Artists: Savage, Edward,
1761-1817
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the brig
Cadet, Albert A Farnham ...
priTEC 0176
1826
Scope and Contents
Artists: Savage, Edward,
1761-1817
Andrew Jackson, president des Etats Unis d'Amerique. A tous ceux qui
les presentes, verront: ...
priTEC 0177
1834
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the ship
Mary of New Bedford ...
priTEC 0178
1839
Scope and Contents
Artists: Savage, Edward,
1761-1817
Martin Van Buren, president des Etats Unis d'Amerique. A tous ceux
qui les presentes, verront: ...
priTEC 0179
1839
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the ship
Franklin of New Bedford ...
priTEC 0180
1841
Scope and Contents
Artists: Savage, Edward,
1761-1817
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the ship
Montpelier, Ellery T. Taber ...
priTEC 0181
1844
Scope and Contents
Artists: Savage, Edward,
1761-1817
James Buchanan, president des Etats Unis d'Amerique. A tous ceux qui
les presentes, verront: ...
priTEC 0182
1859
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of
America.
priTEC 0183
1864
Box 1
In Congress, Wednesday, April 3, 1776. Instructions to the
commanders of private ships or vessels of war ... [broadside]
priTEC 0189
1776 April 3
Box 1
United States. Continental Congress. Commission to Joseph Hurd,
commander of a sloop, to outfit his sloop in a "warlike Manner," signed by John
Jay [printed form filled in, 1 leaf].
priTEC 0190
1779 September 1
Series III. Recreational
1851-1990
Physical Description: 74
Items
Scope and Content
This series contains 74 items pertaining to recreational maritime activities, primarily
yachts and yachting in the United States and Great Britain from the 1850s through the
middle of the 20th century, with reproductions from as late as 1990. The series is
comprised mainly of lithographed prints and photographs of yachting vessels. Of note is
the series
Representative American yachts, a collection of one
hundred and ten views
(priTEC 0155-0161), photographed and published in 11
parts by Henry G. Peabody of Boston, Massachusetts, between 1890 and 1892.
Subseries A. Paintings
1866-1866
[Two sailing vessels passing]
priTEC 0106
1866
Scope and Contents
Artists: Russell,
Benjamin, 1804-1885
Subseries B. Photographs
1890-approximately
1965
Lorna.
priTEC 0083
approximately 1891
Scope and Contents
Publishers: West &
Son
Irex.
priTEC 0084
approximately 1891
Scope and Contents
Publishers: West &
Son
Resolute.
priTEC 0085
approximately 1920
6384 Sistae.
priTEC 0091
approximately
1895-1900
Scope and Contents
Artists: Stebbins, N. L.
(Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922
Start E.Y.C. race, June 27 '08.
priTEC 0092
1908
Shamrock the first which lost to the Columbia in
1899.
priTEC 0093
1930s
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Underwood
& Underwood
Sir Thomas Lipton.
priTEC 0094
approximately
1925-1931
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Underwood
& Underwood
The Endeavour in rough going.
priTEC 0095
1934 August 30
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Keystone View
Company
Sopwith's skill steers Endeavour to victory.
priTEC 0096
1934 September 20
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Keystone View
Company
Rainbow.
priTEC 0097
1934 June 16
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Keystone View
Company
"Enterprise" takes four straight.
priTEC 0098
1930 September
Yo, heave, ho!
priTEC 0099
1934 September 1
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Keystone View
Company
Rainbow wins Astor Cup.
priTEC 0100
1934 August 16
England's America Cup challenger is out-sailed in
trials.
priTEC 0101
1934 July 11
Rainbow leads Weetamoe in America's Cup defense
trials.
priTEC 0102
1934 August 22
Vim wins 54-mile race at Cowes Regatta.
priTEC 0103
1939 August 7
She heels the Endeavour over.
priTEC 0104
1934 August 30
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Keystone View
Company
The Yankee in all its grandeur.
priTEC 0105
1930 July 28
Castanet. Ryde, Aug. 14.
priTEC 0108
approximately 1894
Scope and Contents
Publishers: West &
Son
Carina.
priTEC 0109
approximately 1930
[Two Int'ls - one sloop takes a real knockdown.]
priTEC 0110
approximately 1965
Scope and Contents
Artists: Rosenfeld,
Morris, 1884-1968
Publishers: Morris Rosenfeld & Sons
[Two sloops racing.]
priTEC 0111
approximately
1898-1937
Scope and Contents
Artists: Jackson, Willard
B.
Publishers: Jackson, Willard B.
Start third race for "Roosevelt" Cup Sept. 6, 1906.
priTEC 0112
©1906
Scope and Contents
Artists: Jackson, Willard
B.
Publishers: Jackson, Willard B.
The start in the triangular course, Oct. 9th,
1893.
priTEC 0113
©1893
Scope and Contents
Artists: Loeffler, A.
(August)
Publishers: Loeffler, A. (August)
Box 2
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten
views : Part 1, First Class Sloops [Plates 1-10].
priTEC 0155
1890
Scope and Contents
Artists: Peabody, Henry G.
(Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951
Publishers:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood),
1855-1951
Box 2
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten
views : Part 3, Plates 71-80 -- Thirty-Footers.
priTEC 0156
©1891
Scope and Contents
Artists: Peabody, Henry G.
(Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951
Publishers:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood),
1855-1951
Box 2
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten
views : Part 4, Plates 81-90 -- Thirty-Footers.
priTEC 0157
©1891
Scope and Contents
Artists: Peabody, Henry G.
(Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951
Publishers:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood),
1855-1951
Box 2
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten
views : Forty-six-Foot Racing Yachts [Part 5, plates 41-50]
priTEC 0158
©1891
Scope and Contents
Artists: Peabody, Henry G.
(Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951
Publishers:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood),
1855-1951
Box 2
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten
views : Part 6, Plates 11-19 -- Schooners.
priTEC 0159
©1892
Scope and Contents
Artists: Peabody, Henry G.
(Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951
Publishers:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood),
1855-1951
Box 2
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten
views : Part 7, Plates 27-40 -- Sixty-Footers.
priTEC 0160
©1892
Scope and Contents
Artists: Peabody, Henry G.
(Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951
Publishers:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood),
1855-1951
Box 2
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten
views : Part 9, Plates 61-70 -- Forty-Footers.
priTEC 0161
©1892
Scope and Contents
Artists: Peabody, Henry G.
(Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951
Publishers:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood),
1855-1951
Box 2
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten
views : Part 10, Plates, 92-100, Twenty-one-Footers.
priTEC 0162
1892
Scope and Contents
Artists: Peabody, Henry G.
(Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951
Publishers:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood),
1855-1951
Subseries C. Prints
1862-1990
Boston Harbor.
priTEC 0107
approximately 1850-1855
([reproduction] ©1979
Scope and Contents
Artists: Lane, Fitz Henry,
1804-1865
Publishers: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The "Constitution" on her builders' trial, sailing on the starboard
tack.
priTEC 0114
©1901
Scope and Contents
Artists: Bolles, Charles
E.
Lord Dunraven's yacht "Valkyrie."
priTEC 0115
1889 June 22
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Harper &
Brothers
Half a century's development in the racing yacht. Famous little old
cup-racer "America" shown beside her big latest successor,
"Reliance."
priTEC 0116
©1903
Scope and Contents
Artists: Bunnell, Charles
Beecher
Publishers: Judge Company
"Squared away for home" -- the "Priscilla" winning the Atlantic Club
Regatta, June 15.
priTEC 0117
©1886
Scope and Contents
Artists: Davidson, Julian
Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
Racing sloop yachts shortening sail before a
squall.
priTEC 0118
1887 September 3
Scope and Contents
Artists: Davidson, Julian
Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
The "Volunteer" under full sail.
priTEC 0119
©1887
Scope and Contents
Artists: Davidson, Julian
Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
The ocean yacht-race between the Dauntless and the Cambria : the
start.
priTEC 0120
1870 July 16
Annual schooner race of the Royal Thames Yacht Club : the yachts at
the Mouse light ship.
priTEC 0121
1862 July 5
The yachts "Henrietta," "Fleetwing," and "Vesta" on their grand race
across the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to Cowes.
priTEC 0122
1866 December 22
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Harper &
Brothers
The second day's race for the "America's" Cup -- the run down the
wind.
priTEC 0123
1885 September 26
Scope and Contents
Artists: Davidson, Julian
Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
The struggle for the "America's" Cup - the two yachts bearing down
on the line just before the starting-gun : "Columbia" leading.
priTEC 0124
1899 October 21
Scope and Contents
Artists: Burton,
James
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
The schooner Yacht Westward, 323 tons designed and built by the
Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. Bristol, Rhode Island - launched on March 3,
1910.
priTEC 0132
©1985 February
Scope and Contents
Artists: Mecray,
John
Publishers: Fox-Graphics Editions, Ltd.
The 1891 Herreshoff sloop Gloriana from the painting by John
Mecray.
priTEC 0133
©1988
Scope and Contents
Artists: Mecray,
John
Publishers: Mecray, John
Off the wind, 1937.
priTEC 0134
1937
Scope and Contents
Artists: Rosenfeld,
Stanley, 1913-2002
Publishers:
Mystic Seaport Museum
The first day's race for the "America's" Cup - the "Genesta"
rounding the light-ship.
priTEC 0139
1885 September 26
Scope and Contents
Artists: Burns, Milton J.,
1853-1933; Davidson, Julian Oliver,
1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
To Count Edmund Batthyany, Rear Commodore of the Royal Albert Yacht
Club, this print of his schooner yacht "Flying Cloud," in the walk over for the
second class prize, value £50, in the schooner and yawl match of the Royal Thames
Yacht Club, June 8th 1870, is dedicated by his obed't servant, Josiah
Taylor.
priTEC 0140
1871 May 31
Scope and Contents
Artists: Taylor, Josiah
(Artist)
Publishers: Taylor, Josiah (Artist); Arthur
Ackermann Ltd.
Schooner yacht "Henrietta," 205 tons, New-York Yacht
Club.
priTEC 0141
1867 January 25
Scope and Contents
Artists: Dutton, Thomas
Goldsworth, active 1855
Publishers:
Foster, Wm. (Publisher)
The first defense of the Americas Cup, August 8th
1870.
priTEC 0142
©1982
Scope and Contents
Artists: Mecray,
John
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
The 25th defense : the end of an era.
priTEC 0143
©1984
Scope and Contents
Artists: Nerney, Dan;
Paul Gaj/Classic Graphics
(Firm)
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
A winning yacht.
priTEC 0144
©1885
Scope and Contents
Artists: Davidson, Julian
Oliver, 1853-1894; Wellstood, William,
1819-1900
Publishers: Wellstood & Co.
Shamrock V : Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger for the America's Cup
1930.
priTEC 0145
©1988
Scope and Contents
Artists: Mecray,
John
Publishers: Mecray, John
The schooner yacht Atlantic setting the Trans-Atlantic record, May
17 - 29, 1905.
priTEC 0147
©1980
Scope and Contents
Artists: Mecray,
John
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
The schooner yacht America : the crossing, June 21 - July 11,
1851.
priTEC 0148
©1980
Scope and Contents
Artists: Mecray,
John
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers:
Mystic Seaport Museum
Flying Cloud : the celebrated clipper ship approaching San Francisco
in 1854.
priTEC 0149
©1967 ;
[reproduction] ©1978
Scope and Contents
Artists: Stobart, John,
1929-
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Maritime Heritage Prints,
Inc.
The original Herreshoff 12 1/2 footer : Captain Nathanael G.
Herreshoff in 1915.
priTEC 0152
©1990
Scope and Contents
Artists: Wagner, F.
H.
Publishers: Yankee Accent, Inc.
Peabody Museum of Salem.
priTEC 0153
after 1904
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Nimrod
Press
The yacht "America" first winner of the America Cup Races,
1851.
priTEC 0154
©1974
Scope and Contents
Artists: Lane, Fitz Henry,
1804-1865
Publishers: Samuel L. Lowe, Jr., Antiques
The America and the defenders of the America's Cup, 1851-1930 after
original drawings in pencil by Robert F. Paterson.
priTEC 0163
©1935
Scope and Contents
Artists: Paterson, Robert
F.
Publishers: Sign of the Gosden Head
Subseries D. Publications
1851-1970
Yachting.
priTEC 0086
1907 January
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Yachting
Publishing Co.
Yachting.
priTEC 0087
1907 February
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Yachting
Publishing Co.
Yachting.
priTEC 0088
1907 March
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Yachting
Publishing Co.
Yachting.
priTEC 0089
1907 April
Scope and Contents
Publishers: Yachting
Publishing Co.
The Columbia record of international yacht races for the America's
Cup. : A history of the New York Yacht Club, Royal Ulster Yacht Club and the races
for the America's Cup.
priTEC 0090
©1899
Scope and Contents
Artists: Snell, George S.;
Snell, Henry B. (Henry Bayley),
1858-1943
Publishers: Alder, Frederick T.
Sailing : the beauty of sail.
priTEC 0125
1970 August
The Illustrated London News.
priTEC 0126
1851 August 9
The Illustrated London News.
priTEC 0127
1851 August 23
The Illustrated London News.
priTEC 0128
1851 August 30
Harper's Weekly.
priTEC 0129
1881 July 20
Scope and Contents
Artists: Davidson, Julian
Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
Harper's weekly.
priTEC 0130
1885 September 12
Scope and Contents
Artists: Burns, Milton J.,
1853-1933; Davidson, Julian Oliver,
1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
Colliers Weekly.
priTEC 0131
1899 June 24
Scope and Contents
Artists: Gaul, Gilbert
William, 1855-1919