HCGL. Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

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Proceedings, financial records, and project files for an organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of Great Lakes maritime history.

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Overview, program summary, and course listings for new program at the St. Lawrence College of Applied Arts and Technology campus in Cornwall, Ontario.

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Basic particulars of the yacht CRESCEUS during the time of its ownership by F.W. Defoe.

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A series of 30 maps of various sizes detailing the bathymetry and geology of the lake bottom around the Lake Erie islands. Source and author unknown.

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Short runs of two Bay City, MI, newspapers, with many articles and columns discussing marine issues.

Abstract The papers and records of the Bay Port Fish Company and its subsidiaries, the Saginaw Bay Fish Company and the Lake Huron Fish Company provide sources of information concerning the fishing industry on the Great Lakes during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection is documents the activities and problems of commercial fishermen from the late Depression years (from 1936) through the 1960s, including the decline of commercial fishing in Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron in American...

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Technical data on ship mechanical equipment compiled by the 3rd assistant engineer, Frank W. Trevorrow; includes statistics, calculations, and some specification drawings on generators, pumps, compressors, refrigeration machinery, boilers, tank capacities, and generator engine log readings for 1924 and 1925.

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Letters concerning Great Lakes ships and shipping, probably all written to Ralph K. Roberts of Saginaw, Michigan. Payea was a Ship captain serving on the Great Lakes, master of the LANGELL BOYS and later the AETNA.

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Line drawing showing lines required at berth no. 6, Presque Isle Dock, Toledo, Ohio, on the Maumee River for the vessel M/V MONTROSE.

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Wage rate schedules for wheelsmen, oilers, and handymen; labor agreements with United Steel Workers Union and with MEBA; and minor correspondence.

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Office information sheets, with ship names, transportation statistics, personnel lists, and seasonal shipping summaries.

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Financial record-book of a steamer providing service to Put-in-Bay from Sandusky, Ohio, noting cash received for excursions and cargo, and operating expenses.

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Financial daybook of a steamer providing service to Put-in-Bay from Sandusky, Ohio.

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Letter concerns Great Lakes shipping and the movements of the ship JAMES A. FARRELL. Buell was the Wheelsman of the BUELL at the time of writing.

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Testimony in the Court of Common Pleas, Erie County, Ohio, involving the death of Angelo Fantozzi at the ore-loading operation of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, operated by the Cleveland Stevedore Company in Huron, Ohio.

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Testimony in the Court of Common Pleas, Erie County, Ohio, involving a financial dispute over handling and payment for live carp in a pond owned by United Fisheries, Sandusky, Ohio.

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Correspondence and bill of lading for 683 tons of iron ore, shipped from Escanaba, Michigan, to Cleveland, Ohio, Thomas Wilford, Master

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Bill of lading for a cargo of wheat, shipped September 1, 1869. on board the schooner MYSTIC.

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Property transfer document for Great Lakes vessel C.S. Robinson with statistical data on the ship and owners; sold by Interlake Steamship Company to Kinsman Marine Transit Company.

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Property transfer document for Great Lakes vessel E.C. COLLINS with statistical data on the ship and owners; sold by Pittsburgh Steamship Company to Kinsman Marine Transit Company.

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Legal document, transferring ownership from partners in the schooner CONRAD REID to Cornelius C. Reid of Lorain, Ohio.

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Property transfer document for Great Lakes vessel LABELLE with statistical data on the ship and owners; sold by Pittsburgh Steamship Company to Kinsman Marine Transit Company.

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Property transfer document for Great Lakes vessel MACGILVRAY SHIRAS with statistical data on the ship and owners; sold by Pittsburgh Steamship Company to Kinsman Marine Transit Company.

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Property transfer document for Great Lakes vessel SATURN with statistical data on the ship and owners; sold by Interlake Steamship Company to Kinsman Marine Transit Company.