Records, [ca. 1893]-1988.

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Records, [ca. 1893]-1988.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155538097

Records of Webb Institute and its predecessor Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders, including register of residents at the Home, 1894-1943, giving date and place of birth, trade, last employer, death date, and some comments; minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1899-1945; correspondence, financial records, reports, account books, contracts, newsletters, memoranda, commencement programs, and other miscellaneous items, 1893-1988, pertaining to the Student Organization, the basketball team, the Webb Alumni Association, military service and veterans benefits of students, and general administrative concerns; bound volume of minutes, testimonies, and final report, 1898-1899, concerning students' complaints to the administration about conditions at the Academy; deed to Academy property in the Bronx, 1897; architectural drawings of campus buildings in the Bronx and Glen Cove, ca. 1893-1968, including those by James Brite of the Pratt residence at Glen Cove, 1912-1913; student theses, 1955-1985, and designs and drawings, 1936-1986; catalogs and publications of the Academy and Institute, 1898-1988; and photographs of the Bronx and Glen Cove campuses, alumni events, students, classes, and sport teams, 1900-1982.

40 linear ft., 82 cubic ft.

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Webb Alumni Association.

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Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders

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Webb, William Henry, 1816-1899

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William H. Webb was born in 1816. He began his career as an apprentice in the shipyard of his father, Isaac Webb (1794-1840). William Webb became noted as a designer and builder in New York City and later as founder of the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, New York. He took over the shipyard upon his father's death and built a variety of wooden-hulled vessels, including clipper ships, packets, steamships, military vessels, and others. In 1895, after retirement he published a two-volume set o...

Brite, James R.

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Webb Institute of Naval Architecture

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William H. Webb founded Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders in 1889; it opened at its Bronx location in 1893. In 1947 it moved to the former Herbert Pratt residence at Glen Cove, N.Y., discontinuing the Home for Shipbuilders. From the description of Records, [ca. 1893]-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155538097 ...