Business records, 1904-1937.

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Business records, 1904-1937.

Records pertaining to the ship brokerage business run by T.H. Franklin, Sr. and his son T.H. Franklin, Jr. out of New York City including blueprints and specifications of engines, boats, floating drydocks, steamships, barges, freighters, and scows, 1904-1919; order books recording inquiries on boats, hulls, engines, 1920-1932; offering books listing vessels available, 1915-1933; files containing notices of ships for sale and correspondence, 1930-1937; register of tank vessels which carried petroleum products from the Standard Shipping Company, 1932; brochure of drawings of the Leathem D. Smith self-unloading steamer VALLEY CAMP, 1927; photographs and postcards of ships, boats, tugboats, and docks, 1910s-1920s; and navigation maps of the west coast of Mexico, Long Island Sound, Manila Bay, various parts of the Atlantic Coast of the U.S., the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida coasts, and Chesapeake Bay, 1921-1925.

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Franklin, T. H., Jr.

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Franklin, T. H.

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Standard Shipping Company.

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Smith, Leathem D.

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Marine architect from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. From the description of Modernizing handling of cargo by steamship : discussion by Leathem D. Smith, 1946 Feb. 4. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 32686257 ...

Valley Camp (Ship)

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