Historical research collection : of Alexander Crosby Brown, 1940-1984.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Historical research collection : of Alexander Crosby Brown, 1940-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30820791

This collection consists mostly of notes, correspondence, original manuscripts, newspaper clippings, maps, and photographs (black- and-white and color) related to the author's historical research for his books. Some of the research notes pertain to the books The Old Bay Line, Longboat to Hawaii, Juniper Waterway, Sea-lingo, and Women and Children Last. There is some correspondence about Mark Twain regarding his role concerning the clipper-ship Hornet for the book Longboat to Hawaii. Also, contains some personal correspondence and photographs.

11 cubic ft.

The Mariners' Museum Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7290730

The Mariners' Museum Library

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dg7gd6 (person)

Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Hornet (Clipper-ship)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n718z (corporateBody)

Brown, Alexander Crosby, 1905-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb03vc (person)

Brown authored more than twenty-two books, mostly with maritime subjects. He sailed around the world and was an authority on the Chesapeake Bay, its canals, steamboats, and shipping. He was a former editor of American Neptune, and the Daily Press (Newport News, Va.), and on the staff of the Mariners Museum before his death in 1993. From the description of Historical research collection : of Alexander Crosby Brown, 1940-1984. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 3082079...