Count Carlo Zanardi Landi Collection, 1907-1929, 1917-1927.

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Count Carlo Zanardi Landi Collection, 1907-1929, 1917-1927.

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The Count Carlo Zanardi Landi Collection contains materials from 1907 to 1929. The bulk of the material stems from 1917 to 1927. The correspondence is primarily regarding steamship salvage business after World War I, including the management of crews, the purchase of ships and supplies, and the status of salvage operations. Subject matter in the collection include marine accidents; salvage vessels; steamboats; the Admiralty of Great Britain; historic ships, and salvage missions in the Black Sea, British Isles and Mediterranean Sea. The collection contains handwritten letters; typed correspondence; newspaper clippings; memorandums; telegrams; bills and invoices; a journal titled "The Yachting World and Marine Motor Journal"; a Dutch pamphlet regarding new diver apparatus, and blank hotel stationary. The collection also includes 153 photographs of salvage steamers, salvaged ships, ship damage, crew members and miscellaneous images related to salvage work from 1907 to 1927. One salvage steamer in particular, the Semper Paratus (translated in Latin, means "Always Ready") is mentioned periodically in the correspondence and photographs. Damage done to the S.S. Novington and S.S. Oilfield in Great Britain; the S.S. Andonio D. Kydoniefs in Greece, and the S.S. Sebat, S.S. Lothar Bohlen, and S.S. Cleopatra in Turkey, among a few, are documented in the photograph collection. Many of the photographs were taken in areas of Turkey, including Istanbul (see Constantinople), Gallipoli, and Karaburun in the Anatolia region. Also included are typed and handwritten correspondence in Italian and French, as well as handwritten personal letters from Landi's son Tonio Landi and daughter, actress Elissa Landi.

2 boxes.1 linear foot.

California State University, Dominguez Hills, CSUDH

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California State University, Dominguez Hills, CSUDH

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