Champlain Transportation Company. Ticonderoga collection, 1890-1994.
Title:
Ticonderoga collection, 1890-1994.
Collection relating to the steamboat Ticonderoga, built at Shelburne, Vt., (1905-1906), by Champlain Transportation Company, beginning service on Lake Champlain after its launching in 1906 and running continuously (except for years 1933-1935) until 10 Sept. 1953. Includes accounts, correspondence, bills, broadsides, budgets, certificates, clippings, contracts, diaries, drawings, employee records, ephemera, financial statements, inspection records, logs, minutes, mortgages, photographs, postcards, receipts, reports, schedules, scrapbooks, stationery, tickets, and other materials, reflecting the history of the vessel. Includes minutes of Burlington Chamber of Commerce which raised funds to run the boat for the 1950 season; correspondence between museum benefactor Electra Havemeyer Webb and collection donor, historian, Ralph Nading Hill; materials pertaining to bids submitted by three engineering firms: Crandall Engineering Company, Merritt-Chapman & Scott (who received the bid), and Spencer, White, and Prentis, for the move; correspondence and court documents concerning a lawsuit filed by Hughes Sons Co. against Merritt-Chapman & Scott and the Shelburne Museum; documents concerning the restoration of the boat (1978-1994); and correspondence, drawings, and clippings, relating to models of the Ticonderoga and its engine made by students at Burlington High School.
ArchivalResource:
24 boxes (some oversize)
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