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Various. 1997 Library Accessions, 1786-1972.

Title: 1997 Library Accessions, 1786-1972.

Accessions include: Deeds, receipts and miscellaneous papers relating to members of the Bowker family in Salem, MA and the Joel Bowker estate (1997.002); corresondence of Richard Beale, keeper of logbook for the maiden voyage of the frigate Essex, and the Beale family (1997.007); miscellaneous postcards, which include Salem, MA sites, ships, and the Arctic Ocean and northern Scandanavia (1997.08); correspondence, journals aboard the Ship Lenobia and Ship Probus, and related papers for the Kinsman family of Salem, MA (1997.009); Currier family papers from Newburyport, MA, which also include a diary and account books (1997.024); an assortment of photographic prints, many taken by Tilford, a commercial photographer in Salem, MA (1997.035); transcriptions of Books I and II of Henry Phillips Cogswell's Journal written between 1862 and 1865 (1997.049, stored with Acc #89047); two 11 x 14 albumen prints, a pagoda and a man standing with a stock around his neck, photographed in Shanghai (1997.060); multiple photographs and one photograph album from the Charles Cotting, Jr. Estate (1997.066); transcripts of documents pertaining to Ernest Fenollosa, an American Orientalist (1997.068); an insurance policy for Theresa M. Bowker of Brooklyn, NY (1997.074); D. B. Douglass papers, including an acknowledgement of a donation to the East India Marine Society and an ALS by Stephen White to Douglass (1997.075); and miscellaneous papers of Wallace L. Henshaw, which include bills, receipts, and diaries (1997.076).

ArchivalResource: 12 accessions.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664736568 View

Chapman, Isaac Needham. Isaac Needham Chapman Papers, 1818-1893.

Title: Isaac Needham Chapman Papers, 1818-1893.

Salem (Mass.) shipmaster. Collection contains shipping papers of 14 vessels which Chapman mastered from 1833-1858. Also contains personal and family papers.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.25 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/641676918 View

Various. Nautical Charts and Sailing Directions, 1785, 1802-1861, n. d.

Title: Nautical Charts and Sailing Directions, 1785, 1802-1861, n. d.

Collection consists of four volumes and assorted documents providing sailing directions and nautical charts for coastal travel as well as international travel. Astronomical charts to find the distance of the sun, moon, and stars are also included as are Turner's Longitude Tables to correct the effects of parallax and refraction.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 2 oversize folders (Cabinet 2, Drawer 9)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/654905326 View