Papers donated to the Penobscot Marine Museum by Horace Coombs, 1857-1867.

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Papers donated to the Penobscot Marine Museum by Horace Coombs, 1857-1867.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/744451734

Collection of certificates and invoices (1857-1867) for several ships involved in coastal and Carribean trade. Also includes:

1 folder.

Penobscot Marine Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8117418

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Wiswell, John.

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Etheridge, Richard, 1929-

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Griffin, Phineas

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Seavey, Richard H.

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Coombs, Horace M., 1910-2000

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Robert H. Coombs, sea captain, of Belfast, Me., married Harriet Pendleton in 1850. Their son Charles R. Coombs, an amateur photographer, began making 4" x 5" glass plate negatives in 1892; around 1895 he began using a 5" x 7" format camera; also took photographs in smaller formats with celluloid and paper negatives. He worked in the undertaking business purchased by his father when the captain retired and took over the business when his father died. Horace M. Coombs, local historian, and son of ...