HCGL. Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

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Logbook arranged by trip, giving location, cargo, time and distance traveled, weather conditions, and other notes.

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Six audio tapes of interviews of seasonal workers at Mackinac Island (1990) and the resulting research paper prepared for an independent study course in the Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University.

Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of financial records of the Mackinac Transportation Company. Materials mainly consist of paid bills, checks, and a ledger of account. These records provide insight into the day-to-day logistics of running a shipping company in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The paid bills and checks cover 1889-1899, while the ledger covers 1918-1923. There is no coverage for 1900-1917. A small amount of correspondence and accounts payable for 1890-1893 are also...

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Copies of licenses for members of the MacLean family and also news clippings relate to the loss of the HUDSON and the association of William MacLean and the ship JOHN M. NICOL in that tragedy.

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Photocopy of a volume that includes name of seaman, position, and rate of pay; original name of ship was the WILLIAM CRIPPEN from 1874-1881.

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Shipyard data sheets with information on ship name, hull number, date, vessel type, built for, dimensions, and mechanical information on engines and boilers. Includes hulls 1-311.

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Journal kept by the station keeper of the Lighthouse at Marblehead, Ohio, Lucien M. Clemons.

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Copies of floor plans, elevations, and sections for building of Lighthouse Keeper's house at Marblehead, Ohio.

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The collection contains transcripts, exhibits, and supplementary items from the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation convened on November 18, 1975, eight days after the EDMUND FITZGERALD sank in Lake Superior with her entire crew of twenty-nine men. The purpose of the inquiry was to determine the causes of the tragedy and to examine safety procedures. Indexes are available for exhibits and testimony in addition to an index for each of the seven volumes of the transcript.

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List, from unknown source, gives date, vessel name, rig, country, tonnage, loss of life, damage to cargo, damage to vessel, location, and other remarks.

Abstract The Archives of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit include minutes, committee records, correspondence and memoranda, speeches and papers, and financial reports. The materials span the years from the Society's founding in 1944 to 2017. In addition, the complete files of The Detroit Marine Historian (1947-), the Society's monthly newsletter, as well as other publications are available. The records document the entire history of one of the oldest and most significant historical...

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Extracts of articles on Great Lakes shipping from the Saugatuck Commercial, Lake Shore Commercial, and the Saugatuck Commercial-Record. Includes an index to vessel names.

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Legal document, filed after encountering damaging weather conditions, to protect the vessel and her owners against further claims brought forward by charterers, shippers or cargo receivers.

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Personnel cards for Marinette Marine employees, including name, address, hours worked, and rate of pay; during the early operation of Marinette Marine during World War II.

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Correspondence and documents, including the Articles of Incorporation, related to the early operation of Marinette Marine during World War II.

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Scrapbook of clippings, photos and printed material of company activities, ships, and events.

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The bulk of the collection is made up of 269 color photographs of Great Lakes vessels taken by Mark Shumaker from circa 1995-2013. A number of duplicates are present. The balance of the collection consists of Excel spreadsheets detailing the cargo carried on the BLUE RIVER from 1949-1960. Accompanying photographs of the original trip records in Shumaker's possession complement the summary data. Also present is the photographed log for the CARTIERDOC for 1957.

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Financial analysis with statistics of the Wilson Marine Transit Company.

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Log of a ship owned by Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, possibly written by B.H. Otten while in training on a merchant vessel during World War I with the U.S. Naval Auxiliary Reserves; includes numerous sketches of the Marquette and notes on seamanship along with some printed pamphlets. Ship originally built for the Dearborn Transit Company as the E.L. WALLACE and operated by them between 1906 and 1915.

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The Marsh and McLennan Marine Underwriters collection consist of Hull Claims Case Files, Personal Injury Case Files, Hull loss Records, Protection and Indemnity Loss Records, and Insurance Reviews, ranging from 1920 to 1973.

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Interview conducted as part of Bowling Green State University Oral History Project. Mary Zyp was the wife of Great Lakes mariner Ace Zyp. Mary was active in the International Ship Masters' Association Ladies' Auxiliary. Collection materials include taped interviews with index, interview history, bibliography, and correspondence.

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Commercial traffic can be examined from the vessel, cargo and crew data compiled in the abstracts to form a view of the Great lakes regional economy around the middle of the nineteenth century. The information in each abstract generally contains dates of arrivals and departures, name and rig of vessel, clearance and departure ports, tonnage and crew data.

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Registration volume with forms; includes information on name of shipbuilder (master carpenter), ship name, date built, material, and structure of vessel.

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Photocopies of Masters license with endorsements for service as a ship master on Great Lakes and other waterways.

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Crew listing for a voyage from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on June 7, 1978; gives crew name, position, and year of birth.