Wright Marine Collection

One year and two months of issues of a monthly magazine on maritime topics produced by Canada Steamship Lines.

The records of the Chicago Shipbuilding Company span the years from 1890 to 1962 and document early twentieth-century shipbuilding on the Great Lakes. The bulk of the materials in the collection fall between 1900 and 1950. The most significant record series include dry dock ledgers and reports, legal and labor correspondence, South Yard surveys, financial records, and World War I shipbuilding activities.

Collection contains the titles Hall's Record of Lake Marine, Embracing the Marine Casualties of 1877: rules of navigation, collisions, insurance, courses and distances, steamboats and propellers, also the names of deceased captains, etc., published in 1878, and Hall's Marine disasters on the Western lakes during the navigation of 1871, published in 1872.

Nearly 600 pages of correspondence, specifications, and memoranda sent to the American Shipbuilding Company relating to cargo vessel construction for World War I.