Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection: Finding
Aid
Finding aid prepared by Charla DelaCuadra.
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Overview of the Collection
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
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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.
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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.
Alternative Form of Materials Available
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:
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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)
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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:
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:
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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.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
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.
Forms/Genres
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.
Alternate Authors
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.
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, priTEC 0004
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].
1854
Box 1, priTEC 0005
Bill of sale between Lot Phinney of Osterville, Mass., and William Hathaway, for part of the ship Niger [printed form filled
in, 4 pages].
1865
Box 1, priTEC 0006
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].
1848
Box 1, priTEC 0007
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].
1798
Box 1, priTEC 0008
Whaling signals on board ship J. Perry [handwritten document with name of 4th Officer Gifford, 1 leaf].
after 1852
Box 1, priTEC 0009
Letter from Frank Richardson, Cumberland Inlet, to his mother in Lawrence, Mass. [3 pages].
1866 October 10
Box 1, priTEC 0010
Letter from Captain Richard Luce, Jr., New Bedford, Mass., to Dr. Leroy M. Yale, Holmes Hole, Mass. [1 page].
1847 November 20
Box 1, priTEC 0011
Letter from Captain Richard Luce, Jr., on the Ship Margaret Scott, to Dr. Leroy M. Yale [2 pages].
1849 July 10
Box 1, priTEC 0012
Letter from Captain Richard Luce, Jr., on the Ship Margaret Scott at sea, to Dr. Leroy M. Yale [1 page].
1849 August 17
Box 1, priTEC 0013
Letter from Captain Richard Luce, Jr., on the Ship Margaret Scott, to Dr. Leroy M. Yale [2 pages].
1849
Box 1, priTEC 0014
Letter from Captain Thomas Burdett, off Paita, to William Hathaway [3 pages].
1854 October 22
Box 1, priTEC 0015
Letter from Captain Thomas Peakes, Ship Julian [?] at sea, to William Hathaway [3 pages].
1856 March 30
Box 1, priTEC 0016
Letter from Royal Thurber to William Hathaway about recruiting ship crews [1 page].
1856 [July] 20
Box 1, priTEC 0017
Letter from E. Wyszynski, Louisville, Kentucky, to William Hathaway about his son, Eustace Wyszynski [3 pages].
1864 April 4
Box 1, priTEC 0018
Letter from Captain Jacob L. Cleveland to William Hathaway [3 pages].
1857 March 27
Box 1, priTEC 0019
Letter from Captain Jacob L. Cleveland, on the Barque Luce, at Talcahuano, to William Hathaway [4 pages].
1860 February 13
Box 1, priTEC 0020
Letter from S. P. Hinegar, Honolulu, Hawaii, to William Hathaway [2 pages].
1860 October 13
Box 1, priTEC 0021
Letter from Captain Jacob L. Cleveland, Talcahuano, to William Hathaway [4 pages].
1861 March 18
Box 1, priTEC 0022
Letter from William Standish Fuller to Mallichi Ellis [i.e. Malachi Ellis?], Mattapoisett, Rochester, Mass. [2 pages].
1834 August 19
Subseries B. Prints
approximately 1700-1981
priTEC 0023
The chase.
1855 January 20
Artists: Wade, William, active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
priTEC 0024
Lowering the boats.
1855 January 20
Artists: Wade, William, active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
priTEC 0025
Laying on.
1855 January 20
Artists: Wade, William, active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
priTEC 0026
The flurry.
1855 January 20
Artists: Wade, William, active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
priTEC 0027
Cutting in.
1855 January 20
Artists: Wade, William, active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
priTEC 0028
Trying out.
1855 January 20
Artists: Wade, William, active 1844-1852
Publishers: Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
priTEC 0029
The Greenland whale.
1894
Publishers: Frederick Warne and Co.
priTEC 0030
2ème Ordre Cétacés : Pêche de la Baleine franche (Balæna mysticetus, L.)
1849
Artists: Traviès, Édouard, 1809-
Printers: Fournier (Firm)
priTEC 0031
Pêche de la baleine, harponnement.
1827
Artists: Couché, François-Louis, 1782-1849
priTEC 0032
Running from the whale the pike being fast in her, or sitting upon the Spanish wheel-barrow.
approximately 1700-1730
Artists: Laan, Adolf van der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van der
priTEC 0033
Shooting, beating, and sticking a great fish with tusk.
approximately 1700-1730
Artists: Laan, Adolf van der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van der
priTEC 0034
The ship sailing out of the ice.
approximately 1700-1730
Artists: Laan, Adolf van der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van der
priTEC 0035
The ice bear taken and kill'd with pikes.
approximately 1700-1730
Artists: Laan, Adolf van der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van der
priTEC 0036
They stand ready to stick ye whale upon her head her tail being upwards.
approximately 1700-1730
Artists: Laan, Adolf van der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van der
priTEC 0037
The whale is troubled and turns her self whilst people are sticking her.
approximately 1700-1730
Artists: Laan, Adolf van der, active 1717-1740; Meulen, Sieuwert van der
priTEC 0038
The perils of the whaler : harpooning the great sea monster from the bow of a frail boat.
©1910
Artists: Gleason, J. Duncan (Joe Duncan), 1881-1959
Publishers: Leslie-Judge Company; Charles Schweinler Press
priTEC 0039
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.
approximately 1856-1858
Artists: Rease, W. H.
Publishers: Wagner & M’Guigan
priTEC 0040
Wild Ranger.
approximately 1901
Artists: Hughes, J. (Artist)
priTEC 0041
Devonshire.
approximately 1901
Artists: Silva, Joseph de (Artist)
priTEC 0042
Young America.
approximately 1901
priTEC 0043
Sweepstakes.
approximately 1901
priTEC 0044
Resolute.
approximately 1901
Artists: Lai, Sung, active 1850-1885
priTEC 0045
Isaac Webb.
approximately 1901
Artists: Hughes, J. (Artist)
priTEC 0046
Courier (built in 1822).
approximately 1901
priTEC 0047
Harvest Queen.
approximately 1901
Artists: Hughes, J. (Artist)
priTEC 0048
Sovereign of the Seas.
approximately 1901
priTEC 0049
Niagara.
approximately 1901
Artists: Buttersworth, James Edward, 1817-1894
priTEC 0050
Northern Light.
approximately 1901
Artists: Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865
priTEC 0051
Pêche au cachalot sur les côtes du Méxique.
approximately 1837-1866
Artists: LeBreton, Louis, 1818-1866
Printers: Imprimerie Lemercier et cie
Publishers: Dusacq et cie
priTEC 0052
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 1.
©1872
Artists: Newell, John Perry, 1831-1898
Printers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
priTEC 0053
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 2.
©1872
Artists: Newell, John Perry, 1831-1898
Printers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
priTEC 0054
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 3.
©1872
Artists: Newell, John Perry, 1831-1898
Printers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
priTEC 0055
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 4.
©1872
Printers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
priTEC 0056
Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 5.
©1872
Printers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
Publishers: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
priTEC 0057
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.
1825 January 1
Artists: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845; Sutherland, Thomas, approximately 1785-approximately 1825
Publishers: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845
priTEC 0058
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.
1834
Artists: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845; Duncan, Edward, 1804-1882
Publishers: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845
priTEC 0059
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.
1829 March
Artists: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845; Duncan, Edward, 1804-1882
Publishers: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845
priTEC 0060
A ship on the north-west coast cutting in her last right whale.
after 1843
Artists: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885; Mayer, A. (Lithographer)
Printers: Imprimerie Lemercier et cie
priTEC 0061
[Sailing vessel in Arctic ice.]
approximately 1880-1890
Artists: Bradford, William, 1823-1892
priTEC 0062
New York: the Black Ball packet "Orpheus" leaving the East River in 1835 by John Stobart.
©1969 ; ©1979
Artists: Stobart, John, 1929-
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Maritime Heritage Prints, Inc.
priTEC 0063
Whaling in the Arctic : the Charles W. Morgan 'cutting in' in 1884 by John Stobart.
©1978
Artists: Stobart, John, 1929-
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Maritime Heritage Prints, Inc.
priTEC 0064
Pêche de la Baleine. Whale-Fishery.
approximately 1835
Artists: Garneray, Louis, 1783-1857; Martens, Frederic
Printers: Goupil & Vibert
Publishers: Goupil & Vibert
priTEC 0065
Pêche du Cachalot. Chachalot Fishery.
approximately 1835
Artists: Garneray, Louis, 1783-1857; Martens, Frederic
Printers: Goupil & Vibert
Publishers: Goupil & Vibert
priTEC 0066
Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties.
©1871
Artists: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
Publishers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
priTEC 0067
Sperm whaling with its varieties.
©1870
Artists: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
Publishers: J.H. Bufford's Lith.
priTEC 0135
Brig "Diomede" of Salem - 1809.
©1978
priTEC 0136
Eliza of Providence January 1802.
1802-1840 ([reproduction] ©1981)
Artists: Toulza, J. Etne.
Printers: Meriden Gravure Company
Publishers: Peabody Museum of Salem
priTEC 0137
The American clipper Comet, 2477 tons.
1977
Artists: Wilcox, L. A. (Leslie A.)
Publishers: Parker Gallery (London, England)
priTEC 0138
Sovereign of the Seas.
©1978
Artists: Wilcox, L. A. (Leslie A.)
Publishers: Mill Pond Press
priTEC 0146
Gloucester schooner "L. A. Dunton" off Soundings.
©1978
Artists: Mecray, John
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
priTEC 0150
Sailing day, Nantucket, in 1841.
©1974 ; [reproduction] ©1979
Artists: Stobart, John, 1929-
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Maritime Heritage Prints, Inc.
priTEC 0151
Hudson River sloop Phillip R. Paulding.
©1973
Artists: Buttersworth, James Edward, 1817-1894
Publishers: Aaron Ashley, Inc.
Subseries C. Publications
1788-1855
Box 1, priTEC 0001
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.
1788
Publishers: Imprimerie royale (France)
Box 1, priTEC 0002
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.
1825
Author: Chappel, Thomas
Publishers: American Sunday-School Union
Box 1, priTEC 0003
"An American Whaling Voyage".
1855 January 20
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
priTEC 0068
Order of battle and sailing.
1811 December 20
Box 1, priTEC 0184
Order from Sir Evan Nepean, Admiralty Office, to Sir Richard Bickerton to "detain in the Mediterranean all the line of Battle
Ships ..." [6 pages].
1802 August 4
Marked "Duplicate, Most Secret."
Box 1, priTEC 0185
Order from Horatio Nelson to Sir William Hamilton [2 pages].
1800 February 28
Box 1, priTEC 0186
Order from Horatio Nelson to Richard H. Moubray to take command of the Thunder [2 pages].
1804 July 16
Box 1, priTEC 0187
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].
1703 May 4
Box 1, priTEC 0188
Order from the Great Britain Admiralty to Lord Shuldham [1 page].
1778 March 16
Subseries B. Prints
1776-1977
priTEC 0069
H. M. S. Carysfort, 26 guns.
approximately 1838-1845
Artists: Vernon, H. John
Printers: Day & Haghe
Publishers: Hinton, A.; Ackermann and Co.
priTEC 0070
Breaking up of the Agamemnon.
1870
Artists: Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910
priTEC 0071
American ships X frigates Constellation 38 and Boston 28, 1800.
1927
Artists: Wales, George Canning, 1868-1940
priTEC 0072
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.
1834 June 1
Artists: Havell, Robert, 1793-1878
Publishers: Colnaghi Son & Co.
priTEC 0073
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.
approximately 1830-1837
Artists: Gilbert, Pierre-Julien; Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857
Publishers: Ackermann and Co.
priTEC 0074
The memorable engagement of Captn. Pearson of the Serapis, with Paul Jones of the Bon Homme Richard & his squadron, Sep. 23,
1779.
1780 December 12 ; 1781
Artists: Paton, Richard, 1717-1791
Printers: Fittler, James, 1758-1835; Lerpinière, Daniel, 1745-1785
Publishers: Boydell, John, 1720-1804
priTEC 0075
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.
1796 February 16
Artists: Pocock, Nicholas, 1740?-1821; Pollard, Robert, 1755-1838
Publishers: Pocock, Nicholas, 1740?-1821
priTEC 0076
Spoils of war : portraits of the French and Spanish ships taken by Lord Anson, Captain Buckle and Sir E Hawk in the year 1747.
1748-1751 ([reproduction] ©1977)
Artists: Short, Robert (Artist)
Printers: Headley Brothers (Firm)
Publishers: Boydell, John, 1720-1804; Margary, Harry
priTEC 0077
Battle of the Nile, the attack at sunset.
1799 February
Artists: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
Publishers: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
priTEC 0078
Battle of the Nile, at 10 o'clock at night.
1799 February
Artists: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
Publishers: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
priTEC 0079
Battle of the Nile, near midnight.
1799 February
Artists: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
Publishers: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
priTEC 0080
Battle of the Nile, on the ensuing morning.
1799 February
Artists: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
Publishers: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815
priTEC 0081
Six engraved outlines of ships of war, from a first-rate to a cutter.
1815
priTEC 0082
[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.]
1830
priTEC 0164
[Liber nauticus and instructor in the art of marine drawing.]
1805
priTEC 0165
By the president of the United States of America. Suffer the brig Peggy of Newport ...
1797 ; 1800
priTEC 0166
John Adams, president of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents, greeting: know ye ...
1800
priTEC 0167
John Adams, president of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents, greeting: ...
1798
priTEC 0168
By the president of the United States of America. Suffer the ...
approximately 1801-1809
Artists: Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
priTEC 0169
Thomas Jefferson, president des Etats Unis d'Amerique. A tous ceux qui les presentes, verront: ...
1802
priTEC 0170
By the president of the United States of America. Suffer the ship Maria of New York, James Davis ...
1809
Artists: Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
priTEC 0171
James Madison, president of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents, greeting: ...
1813
priTEC 0172
James Madison, president of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents, greeting: ...
approximately 1809-1817
priTEC 0173
To captain ___ commander of the private armed ___ called the ...
1812
priTEC 0174
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the brig Juno of Providence ...
1817
Artists: Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
priTEC 0175
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the brig Wm. Thacher ...
1819
Artists: Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
priTEC 0176
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the brig Cadet, Albert A Farnham ...
1826
Artists: Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
priTEC 0177
Andrew Jackson, president des Etats Unis d'Amerique. A tous ceux qui les presentes, verront: ...
1834
priTEC 0178
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the ship Mary of New Bedford ...
1839
Artists: Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
priTEC 0179
Martin Van Buren, president des Etats Unis d'Amerique. A tous ceux qui les presentes, verront: ...
1839
priTEC 0180
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the ship Franklin of New Bedford ...
1841
Artists: Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
priTEC 0181
By the president of the United States of America. suffer the ship Montpelier, Ellery T. Taber ...
1844
Artists: Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
priTEC 0182
James Buchanan, president des Etats Unis d'Amerique. A tous ceux qui les presentes, verront: ...
1859
priTEC 0183
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America.
1864
Box 1, priTEC 0189
In Congress, Wednesday, April 3, 1776. Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war ... [broadside]
1776 April 3
Box 1, priTEC 0190
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].
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
priTEC 0106
[Two sailing vessels passing]
1866
Artists: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885
Subseries B. Photographs
1890-approximately 1965
priTEC 0083
Lorna.
approximately 1891
priTEC 0085
Resolute.
approximately 1920
priTEC 0091
6384 Sistae.
approximately 1895-1900
Artists: Stebbins, N. L. (Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922
priTEC 0092
Start E.Y.C. race, June 27 '08.
1908
priTEC 0093
Shamrock the first which lost to the Columbia in 1899.
1930s
Publishers: Underwood & Underwood
priTEC 0094
Sir Thomas Lipton.
approximately 1925-1931
Publishers: Underwood & Underwood
priTEC 0095
The Endeavour in rough going.
1934 August 30
Publishers: Keystone View Company
priTEC 0096
Sopwith's skill steers Endeavour to victory.
1934 September 20
Publishers: Keystone View Company
priTEC 0097
Rainbow.
1934 June 16
Publishers: Keystone View Company
priTEC 0098
"Enterprise" takes four straight.
1930 September
priTEC 0099
Yo, heave, ho!
1934 September 1
Publishers: Keystone View Company
priTEC 0100
Rainbow wins Astor Cup.
1934 August 16
priTEC 0101
England's America Cup challenger is out-sailed in trials.
1934 July 11
priTEC 0102
Rainbow leads Weetamoe in America's Cup defense trials.
1934 August 22
priTEC 0103
Vim wins 54-mile race at Cowes Regatta.
1939 August 7
priTEC 0104
She heels the Endeavour over.
1934 August 30
Publishers: Keystone View Company
priTEC 0105
The Yankee in all its grandeur.
1930 July 28
priTEC 0108
Castanet. Ryde, Aug. 14.
approximately 1894
priTEC 0109
Carina.
approximately 1930
priTEC 0110
[Two Int'ls - one sloop takes a real knockdown.]
approximately 1965
Artists: Rosenfeld, Morris, 1884-1968
Publishers: Morris Rosenfeld & Sons
priTEC 0111
[Two sloops racing.]
approximately 1898-1937
Artists: Jackson, Willard B.
Publishers: Jackson, Willard B.
priTEC 0112
Start third race for "Roosevelt" Cup Sept. 6, 1906.
©1906
Artists: Jackson, Willard B.
Publishers: Jackson, Willard B.
priTEC 0113
The start in the triangular course, Oct. 9th, 1893.
©1893
Artists: Loeffler, A. (August)
Publishers: Loeffler, A. (August)
priTEC 0155
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten views : Part 1, First Class Sloops [Plates 1-10].
1890
priTEC 0156
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten views : Part 3, Plates 71-80 -- Thirty-Footers.
©1891
priTEC 0157
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten views : Part 4, Plates 81-90 -- Thirty-Footers.
©1891
priTEC 0158
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten views : Forty-six-Foot Racing Yachts [Part 5, plates 41-50]
©1891
priTEC 0159
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten views : Part 6, Plates 11-19 -- Schooners.
©1892
priTEC 0160
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten views : Part 7, Plates 27-40 -- Sixty-Footers.
©1892
priTEC 0161
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten views : Part 9, Plates 61-70 -- Forty-Footers.
©1892
priTEC 0162
Representative American yachts, a collection of one hundred and ten views : Part 10, Plates, 92-100, Twenty-one-Footers.
1892
Subseries C. Prints
1862-1990
priTEC 0107
Boston Harbor.
approximately 1850-1855 ([reproduction] ©1979)
Artists: Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865
Publishers: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
priTEC 0114
The "Constitution" on her builders' trial, sailing on the starboard tack.
©1901
Artists: Bolles, Charles E.
priTEC 0115
Lord Dunraven's yacht "Valkyrie."
1889 June 22
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0116
Half a century's development in the racing yacht. Famous little old cup-racer "America" shown beside her big latest successor,
"Reliance."
©1903
Artists: Bunnell, Charles Beecher
Publishers: Judge Company
priTEC 0117
"Squared away for home" -- the "Priscilla" winning the Atlantic Club Regatta, June 15.
©1886
Artists: Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0118
Racing sloop yachts shortening sail before a squall.
1887 September 3
Artists: Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0119
The "Volunteer" under full sail.
©1887
Artists: Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0120
The ocean yacht-race between the Dauntless and the Cambria : the start.
1870 July 16
priTEC 0121
Annual schooner race of the Royal Thames Yacht Club : the yachts at the Mouse light ship.
1862 July 5
priTEC 0122
The yachts "Henrietta," "Fleetwing," and "Vesta" on their grand race across the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to Cowes.
1866 December 22
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0123
The second day's race for the "America's" Cup -- the run down the wind.
1885 September 26
Artists: Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0124
The struggle for the "America's" Cup - the two yachts bearing down on the line just before the starting-gun : "Columbia" leading.
1899 October 21
Artists: Burton, James
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0132
The schooner Yacht Westward, 323 tons designed and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. Bristol, Rhode Island - launched
on March 3, 1910.
©1985 February
Artists: Mecray, John
Publishers: Fox-Graphics Editions, Ltd.
priTEC 0133
The 1891 Herreshoff sloop Gloriana from the painting by John Mecray.
©1988
Artists: Mecray, John
Publishers: Mecray, John
priTEC 0134
Off the wind, 1937.
1937
Artists: Rosenfeld, Stanley, 1913-2002
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
priTEC 0139
The first day's race for the "America's" Cup - the "Genesta" rounding the light-ship.
1885 September 26
Artists: Burns, Milton J., 1853-1933; Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0140
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.
1871 May 31
Artists: Taylor, Josiah (Artist)
Publishers: Taylor, Josiah (Artist); Arthur Ackermann Ltd.
priTEC 0141
Schooner yacht "Henrietta," 205 tons, New-York Yacht Club.
1867 January 25
Artists: Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth, active 1855
Publishers: Foster, Wm. (Publisher)
priTEC 0142
The first defense of the Americas Cup, August 8th 1870.
©1982
Artists: Mecray, John
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
priTEC 0143
The 25th defense : the end of an era.
©1984
Artists: Nerney, Dan; Paul Gaj/Classic Graphics (Firm)
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
priTEC 0144
A winning yacht.
©1885
Artists: Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894; Wellstood, William, 1819-1900
Publishers: Wellstood & Co.
priTEC 0145
Shamrock V : Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger for the America's Cup 1930.
©1988
Artists: Mecray, John
Publishers: Mecray, John
priTEC 0147
The schooner yacht Atlantic setting the Trans-Atlantic record, May 17 - 29, 1905.
©1980
Artists: Mecray, John
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
priTEC 0148
The schooner yacht America : the crossing, June 21 - July 11, 1851.
©1980
Artists: Mecray, John
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Mystic Seaport Museum
priTEC 0149
Flying Cloud : the celebrated clipper ship approaching San Francisco in 1854.
©1967 ; [reproduction] ©1978
Artists: Stobart, John, 1929-
Printers: Litho-Craft of New England
Publishers: Maritime Heritage Prints, Inc.
priTEC 0152
The original Herreshoff 12 1/2 footer : Captain Nathanael G. Herreshoff in 1915.
©1990
Artists: Wagner, F. H.
Publishers: Yankee Accent, Inc.
priTEC 0153
Peabody Museum of Salem.
after 1904
priTEC 0154
The yacht "America" first winner of the America Cup Races, 1851.
©1974
Artists: Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865
Publishers: Samuel L. Lowe, Jr., Antiques
priTEC 0163
The America and the defenders of the America's Cup, 1851-1930 after original drawings in pencil by Robert F. Paterson.
©1935
Subseries D. Publications
1851-1970
priTEC 0086
Yachting.
1907 January
Publishers: Yachting Publishing Co.
priTEC 0087
Yachting.
1907 February
Publishers: Yachting Publishing Co.
priTEC 0088
Yachting.
1907 March
Publishers: Yachting Publishing Co.
priTEC 0089
Yachting.
1907 April
Publishers: Yachting Publishing Co.
priTEC 0090
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.
©1899
Artists: Snell, George S.; Snell, Henry B. (Henry Bayley), 1858-1943
Publishers: Alder, Frederick T.
priTEC 0125
Sailing : the beauty of sail.
1970 August
priTEC 0126
The Illustrated London News.
1851 August 9
priTEC 0127
The Illustrated London News.
1851 August 23
priTEC 0128
The Illustrated London News.
1851 August 30
priTEC 0129
Harper's Weekly.
1881 July 20
Artists: Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0130
Harper's weekly.
1885 September 12
Artists: Burns, Milton J., 1853-1933; Davidson, Julian Oliver, 1853-1894
Publishers: Harper & Brothers
priTEC 0131
Colliers Weekly.
1899 June 24
Artists: Gaul, Gilbert William, 1855-1919