Wright, Richard J., Dr., 1935-1986

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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.

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Letters outlining the background history and ownership details of the schooner JOHN WEBER.

Scope and Contents This collection mainly consists of Glick's correspondence with other Great Lakes researchers regarding maritime history topics. Due to his extensive personal knowledge and network of other subject experts, Glick was regualrly consulted by researchers and institutions. For some time, he served as part of the editorial review committee for the Great Lakes Books Series at the Wayne State University Press. Several manuscripts and excerpts from proposals are present in the collection. Also...

Scope and Contents The collection is an extensive congolmeration of numerous newspaper articles and extracts relating to Great Lakes maritime history, and represents the largest of such collections known. The majority of this collection consists of 555 binders of newspaper clippings regarding maritime news and events in the Great Lakes region from 1819-1987. A large number of American and Canadian titles are represented. Frequent ones to appear include the Cleveland Plain...

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Letter in answer to inquiry, detailing the circumstances of the sinking of the vessel Charles S. Price in November 1913.

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This collection primarily consists of proceedings of the Milwaukee Dry Dock Company, including minutes (1891-1928) and stock records (1891-1932). Also contained on the roll is a catalog of steam generators from Wickes Bros. in Saginaw, MI.

Scope and Contents Ship listing of freighters and barges of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, with data on tonnage, fuel, earnings, cargo, and other costs of operation for 1907-1908. This collection also contains minutes of the Boards of Directors for the Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Company 1941-1965), McDougall-Duluth Shipbuilding Company (1919-1942), and McDougall-Duluth Company (a holding company, 1916-1965). Other records include private journals for McDougall-Duluth Shipbuilding (1920), McDougall-Duluth...

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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.

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The collection contains publications, correspondence, and manuscript materials both collected and written by Dr. Richard J. Wright, founder of the Center for Archival Collections.

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The brief corporate history (1901-1912) of the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Co. is documented in this collection. The company purchased the assets of the Miller Brothers Dry Dock Co. which had started a shipbuilding and ship repair business in 1855. The business of both companies centered on work from local repairs and building tugboats. The collection includes financial records, minutes, and stock certificates.

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Data sheets, photographs, and correspondence with information on the ship MYSTIC ISLE.

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Unpublished manuscript, with handwritten comments and corrections by Richard J. Wright.

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Transcriptions of ship-building information from U.S. Coast Guard records in the National Archives Branch, Chicago.

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Cost estimate forms, correspondence, telegrams, and memoranda relating to hulls built by the Union Dry Dock Company (and Buffalo Dry Dock Company) from the 1880s to 1911.

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

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Material from many of the major Great Lakes fleets giving winter mooring lists, appointments, retirements, and deaths for the year, including Amoco, Upper Lakes Shipping, Pickands Mather, Halco, Algoma, Ford, Cleveland Cliffs, Hanna, and others; compiled by Richard Wright.