HCGL. Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

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A log for the self-propelled barge CONSTITUTION covering eleven trips for the 1913 season, and one trip in October 1914. Data recorded includes date, time, location, bearing, and basic weather information.

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Log of a wooden propeller vessel on the Great Lakes; enrolled out of Detroit.

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A combination logbook/diary kept by Henry D. Johnson while engaged in fishing expeditions in Epoufette Bay on the south shore of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Johnson and his companions traveled to Epoufette in September-October of 1860 and 1861. John recorded the daily catch, demonstrating the high numbers of the fish population in the time period.

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Logbook of a general cargo sailing vessel on the Great Lakes, operating out of Ogdensburg, NY.

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Photocopy of the deck log for the CONALLISON (former J.R. SENSIBAR) for the 1981 shipping season. Data recorded includes date, time, plac, weather, heading, and notes.

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Logbook of a general cargo sailing vessel on the Great Lakes. Contains weather, cargo, sailing conditions, crew status, and other data.

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Photocopy of the logbook of His Majesty's Armed Sloop WELCOME, operating generally between Mackinac and Detroit.

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General logs for April 16-September 3, 1956, and October 16-December 9, 1958.

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Logbooks for carferry trips between January 1-July 19, 1963 (v.1) and June 29-December 22, 1966 (v.2).

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Master's scrap logbooks for April 8-December 16, 1960, and April 28-December 8, 1965.

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Logbooks for sailing vessel detailing cargoes carried, ports visited, weather, and other data.

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Engineer's log for United States lighthouse tender HAZE for May 6-Oct 31, 1873 and the general log for May 1-Oct 27, 1874.

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General logs for October 11, 1941, through April 26, 1942, and August 27, 1953-September 17, 1958.

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Log of a whaling vessel sailing out of Mystic, CT; on same roll of film with logbook for the schooner PALESTINE.

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Engineer's log for April 1-December 16, 1967, and the pilothouse log for March 26-October 1, 1968.

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This collection is composed of approximately three hundred color 35mm slides depicting Great Lakes freighters near Marysville, Michigan. Slides in this collection date from the 1950s. Lois Dexter’s father is the credited photographer for the entire collection.

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A collection of newspaper clippings documenting the London Naval Conference in January 1930.

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Construction permits and operating licenses with the Federal Radio Commission and later FCC for coastal and harbor marine radio service with ships on the Great Lakes.

Scope and Contents The microfilmed scrapbooks in this collection document the history of the Lorain Electronics Corporation from 1931 to 1976. The news clippings and articles describe the growth of the company from a small entertainment-oriented manufacturer to a marine communications giant. The filmed scrapbooks are of overlapping dates and are prepared as follows:Scrapbook 1: 1933-1939 Scrapbook 2: 1931-1956 Scrapbook 3: 1939-1970 Scrapbook 4: 1971-1975Photographic items were removed...

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Several newspaper clippings reporting on the financial and organizational issues in the Lorain Electronics Corporation.

Abstract This collection documents the history of commercial sail on the Great Lakes through Wilson's research, photographs, clippings from publications, and original artwork. These images record changes in vessel technology from the Viking era of c. 1000 to boats of 1988. Comparisons can be made between rigging specifications for sailing vessels of different centuries. Wilson concentrated heavily on sailing vessels, but also obtained images of steamships. The history of marine art can also be...

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Letters to his wife Addie, concern Great Lakes shipping and family matters; cover letter from donor includes biographical data. Letters written during Lucien's serivce aboard the schooner COMRADE.

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The Lucy Neff was a wooden vessel built at West Bay City, Michigan in 1893 as the W.P. Ketcham; renamed the Lucy Neff in 1902 and served in the coastal trade; foundered during a storm on December 17, 1915. This logbook details a difficult voyage from Detroit San Francisco, winter-over for repairs in Maine, and another voyage down the coast and to California, covering 1907-1908.