Henry Hall's notebooks for shipbuilding in the United States, 1881-1883.

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Henry Hall's notebooks for shipbuilding in the United States, 1881-1883.

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Two bound manuscript volumes (1881, 1883) of Hall's handwritten notes documenting the U.S. shipbuilding industry, kept during his travels about the country collecting information which led to the publication of his Report on the Ship-building Industry of the United States (in 8th vol. of Tenth Census of the United States, 1880 (printed 1884)).

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

Penobscot Marine Museum

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Hall, Henry, 1845-1920

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Newspaper editor, author, and journalist, of New York, N.Y.; b. at Auburn, N.Y., Dec. 6, 1845; editor of several Auburn and New York City newspapers before becoming business manager for New York Tribune 1882-1901; m. Sarah Virginia Houghton, of Bath, Me., Feb. 2, 1886; at his death, he had an office at 52 Broadway, New York, N.Y.. and a home in Bronxville; he received the contract to describe the United States shipbuilding industry for the tenth census; the two notebooks in this collection were ...

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...

United States. Census Office

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McKay, Donald, 1810-1880

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Donald McKay was a naval architect and shipbuilder of Boston, famed as a designer and builder of clipper ships. When wooden ships were threatened with obsolescence after 1857, McKay travelled in Europe, where he studied British and French naval matters thoroughly. McKay became a leading advocate of steam-screw ironclads for the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, but his designs were eventually rejected, primarily because their grand scale exceeded the ability of manufacturers to execute them. ...