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Title: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1700-1990
Bulk dates: 1800-1935
Collection Number: priTEC
Creator:
Congdon, Eleanor S. ;
Congdon, Theodore G.
Extent:
190 items
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Prints and Ephemera
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
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: Primarily English, with some French.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on January 27, 2016.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities.
The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the
researcher.
[Identification of item]. Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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.
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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.
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.
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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:
Manuscript volumes donated by Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon as part of the Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime
Collection:
- 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)
- Watch Station and Quarter Bill of His Majesty's Sloop Harlequin, John Weeks, Esq. Commander., ca. 1820 (mssHM 70179)
- Horatio Thomas Austin log of the HMS Salamander (Steam Sloop) and the HMS Medea (Steam Sloop), 1833-1834 (mssHM 70180)
- Richard Malone log of the HMS Harrier, 1835-1839 (mssHM 70181)
Related collections:
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
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.
Intaglio prints.
Leaflets (printed works)
Lithographs.
Manuscripts.
Passenger lists.
Paintings.
Periodical illustrations.
Periodicals.
Photographs.
Printed ephemera.
Promotional materials.
Relief prints.
Hathaway, William H. Jr., 1798-1885, recipient.
Aaron Ashley, Inc.
Ackermann and Co.
Alder, Frederick T.
American Sunday-School Union.
Arthur Ackermann Ltd.
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895.
Bolles, Charles E.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804.
Bradford, William, 1823-1892.
Bunnell, Charles Beecher.
Burns, Milton J., 1853-1933.
Burton, James.
Buttersworth, James Edward, 1817-1894.
Charles Schweinler Press.
Colnaghi Son & Co.
Couché, François-Louis, 1782-1849.
Cross, Roy.
Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894.
Day & Haghe.
Day, William, 1797-1845.
Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815.
Duncan, Edward, 1804-1882.
Dusacq et cie.
Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth, active 1855.
Fittler, James, 1758-1835.
Foster, Wm. (Publisher)
Fournier (Firm)
Fox-Graphics Editions, Ltd.
Frederick Warne and Co.
Garneray, Louis, 1783-1857.
Gaul, Gilbert William, 1855-1919.
Gilbert, Pierre-Julien.
Gleason, J. Duncan (Joe Duncan), 1881-1959.
Goupil & Vibert.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910.
Haghe, Louis, 1806-1885.
Harper & Brothers.
Havell, Robert, 1793-1878.
Headley Brothers (Firm)
Hinton, A.
Huggins, William John, 1781-1845.
Hughes, J. (Artist)
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857.
Imprimerie Lemercier et cie.
Imprimerie royale (France)
J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Jackson, Willard B.
Judge Company.
Keystone View Company.
Laan, Adolf van der, active 1717-1740.
Lai, Sung, active 1850-1885.
Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865.
LeBreton, Louis, 1818-1866.
Lerpinière, Daniel, 1745-1785.
Leslie-Judge Company.
Litho-Craft of New England.
Loeffler, A. (August)
Margary, Harry.
Maritime Heritage Prints, Inc.
Martens, Frederic.
Mayer, A. (Lithographer)
McFarlane, D.
Mecray, John.
Meriden Gravure Company.
Meulen, Sieuwert van der.
Mill Pond Press.
Morris Rosenfeld & Sons.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Mystic Seaport Museum.
Nerney, Dan.
Newell, John Perry, 1831-1898.
Nimrod Press.
Orme, Edward.
Parker Gallery (London, England)
Paterson, Robert F.
Paton, Richard, 1717-1791.
Paul Gaj/Classic Graphics (Firm)
Peabody Museum of Salem.
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951.
Pocock, Nicholas, 1740?-1821.
Pollard, Robert, 1755-1838.
Rawle, S.
Rease, W. H.
Rosenfeld, Morris, 1884-1968.
Rosenfeld, Stanley, 1913-2002.
Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885.
Samuel L. Lowe, Jr., Antiques.
Savage, Edward, 1761-1817.
Schetky, John Christian, 1778-1874.
Serres, John Thomas, 1759-1825.
Short, Robert (Artist)
Sign of the Gosden Head.
Silva, Joseph de (Artist)
Smith, Elder, and Co.
Snell, George S.
Snell, Henry B. (Henry Bayley), 1858-1943.
Stebbins, N. L. (Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922.
Stobart, John, 1929-.
Sutherland, Thomas, approximately 1785-approximately 1825.
Taylor, Josiah (Artist)
Taylor, Josiah (Lithographer)
Toulza, J. Etne.
Traviès, Édouard, 1809-.
Underwood & Underwood.
Vernon, H. John.
Wade, William, active 1844-1852.
Wagner & M’Guigan.
Wagner, F. H.
Wales, George Canning, 1868-1940.
Wellstood & Co.
Wellstood, William, 1819-1900.
West & Son.
Wilcox, L. A. (Leslie A.)
Yachting Publishing Co.
Yankee Accent, Inc.