Ticonderoga collection, 1890-1994.

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Champlain Transportation Company. Ticonderoga collection, 1890-1994.

Title

Ticonderoga collection, 1890-1994.

Resource Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70960266

Abstract

Collection relating to the steamboat Ticonderoga, built at Shelburne, Vt., (1905-1906), by Champlain Transportation Company, beginning service on Lake Champlain after its launching in 1906 and running continuously (except for years 1933-1935) until 10 Sept. 1953. Includes accounts, correspondence, bills, broadsides, budgets, certificates, clippings, contracts, diaries, drawings, employee records, ephemera, financial statements, inspection records, logs, minutes, mortgages, photographs, postcards, receipts, reports, schedules, scrapbooks, stationery, tickets, and other materials, reflecting the history of the vessel. Includes minutes of Burlington Chamber of Commerce which raised funds to run the boat for the 1950 season; correspondence between museum benefactor Electra Havemeyer Webb and collection donor, historian, Ralph Nading Hill; materials pertaining to bids submitted by three engineering firms: Crandall Engineering Company, Merritt-Chapman & Scott (who received the bid), and Spencer, White, and Prentis, for the move; correspondence and court documents concerning a lawsuit filed by Hughes Sons Co. against Merritt-Chapman & Scott and the Shelburne Museum; documents concerning the restoration of the boat (1978-1994); and correspondence, drawings, and clippings, relating to models of the Ticonderoga and its engine made by students at Burlington High School.

Extent

24 boxes (some oversize)

Holding Repository

Shelburne Museum, Inc., Research Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8053327

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.)

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Champlain Transportation Company

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Hill, Ralph Nading, 1917-1987

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Webb, Electra Havemeyer, 1888-1960

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Electra Havemeyer Webb (August 16, 1888 – November 19, 1960) was a collector of American antiques and founder of the Shelburne Museum. During World War I, Electra Webb drove an ambulance in New York City, and was named Assistant Director of the Motor Corps. In 1942, during World War II, she joined the Civilian Defense Volunteer Organization, and directed the Pershing Square Civil Defense Center and its blood bank. In 1947 Electra Havemeyer Webb gathered with her friends to create Shelburne Museu...