Richard J. Wright marine collection
Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0113
Collection Organization
As the founder the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes (formerly known as the Northwest Ohio-Great Lakes Research Center, then Institute for Great Lakes Research), Dr. Wright's personal materials relating to Great Lakes maritime history formed the core of what would eventually become the largest repository related to that subject matter. Notes, narratives, papers, and notes written by Wright are present, as are a wide range of like materials produced by others. Wright's correspondence and research inquiries offer insight into the development of the collection. Correspondence between other researchers and various libraries and archives is also present.
The largest series in the collection is manuscript material. It contains manuscripts, originals and photocopies of historical records, maps, research notes, corporate records, and government records. The largest part of this series is a set of 24 journals (Boxes 6-7) written from 1895-1918 by Charles B. Calder , who served in various managerial positions at Dry Dock Engine Works (Detroit), Detroit Shipbuilding Company, and Toledo Shipbuilding Company. Other large portions of this series include a set of marine newspaper scrapbooks compiled by Captain Frank E. Hamilton and Dr. Wright's Reading Files for 1977-1980.
Publications and Speeches, 1819-1989
Series
This series contains a range of article drafts, papers, pamphlets, and other published materials. The largest component is a set of articles written by W.R. Hanna regarding maritime topics of the Lake Huron and Georgian Bay area. A few papers written by Dr. Wright are present. A wide variety of newspaper articles, essays, narratives round out the series.
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- Creation: 1819-1989
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Badly-Laden "Manasoo" ? "Hibou" Foundered Suddenly" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 1
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Stories of Ports and Places - Early Shipping and Land Transportation on the Lower Thames" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 2
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Georgian Bay Gales Wreak Havoc" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 3
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Georgian Bay's Grumbling Point" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 4
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Georgian Bay's Hamilton Island" (published in Inland Seas) by W.R. Williams, 1951
File – Box 1, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1951
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Isle Royale's Seven Wrecks, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 6
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: The GRIFFON Tragedy", n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 7
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Historic Hope Island Now Boasts Lighthouse, Foghorn, Radio Beacon" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 8
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: The Killarney Quartzite Quarry" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 9
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Lake Disasters-Effects of the Late Gale, Several Vessels Ashore, by Telegraph to The Leader" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 10
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: A Letter to the Editor" from Inland Seas, Winter 1951 by W.R. Williams, 1951
File – Box 1, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1951
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: SS MAGANETTAWAN" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 12
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Midland Shipyard Occupies Historic Site" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 13
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Midland Tugs" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 14
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: PLOUGHBOY" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 15
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: SS QUINTE" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 16
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Shipping Out of Collingwood" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 17
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Ships That Never Die-CALIFORNIA" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 18
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Ships That Never Die-MONARCH" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 19
Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Closing Paragraph of Dr. Landon's 'Sixty Years of the G.P.R. Great Lakes Fleet' from Inland Seas, January 1945
File – Box 1, Folder: 20
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- Creation: January 1945
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: ST. ANDREW" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 21
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Steamers PENETANGUISHENE and DUCHESS OF KALOOLA [sic]" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 22
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Steamer KALOOLAH Extract from 'Forest Lake and Prairie" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 23
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: SIR FRANCIS is Gone-Was the Second Commercial Steamer to Ply Georgian Bay" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 24
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: Some of the Well-Known Wrecks Around Isle Royale", by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 25
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: WAUBUNO Shattered, No Survivors" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 26
"Georgian Bay and the North Channel: World War I Boomed Georgian Bay Lumber" by W.R. Williams, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 27
"Passenger Steamer FRANK E. KIRBY: Flyer of the Great Lakes" by Frank E. Hamilton, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 28
United States Shipping Board Report on a Method of Taking 10,000-ton Lake-Built Vessels to the Seaboard, circa 1918
File – Box 1, Folder: 29
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- Creation: circa 1918
Advertisement for the Sale of BEATRICE OTTINGER by John W. Magill, Yacht Broker, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 30
"The Wilhelmsen Fleet: For Speed and Service", 1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 31
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- Creation: 1961
"There is Treasure on Lake Erie" by Ted King, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 32
"Sunken Treasure in the Great Lakes" by Ted King, n.d.
File – Box 1, Folder: 33
"Great Lakes Fur Trade, 1763-1850: A Bibliographic Study" term paper by Richard J. Wright, 1957
File – Box 1, Folder: 34
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- Creation: 1957
"Maritime History of Erie, Pennsylvania" term paper by Richard J. Wright, May 1955
File – Box 1, Folder: 35
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- Creation: May 1955
"Maritime History of Erie, Pennsylvania" by Richard J. Wright, edited for publication in Telescope, 1957
File – Box 1, Folder: 36
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- Creation: 1957
"Lake Commerce & Canals, 1816-1824: Nationalism or Sectionalism" seminar paper by Richard J. Wright, including some research materials, 1966
File – Box 1, Folder: 37
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- Creation: 1966
"Whaleback" article taken from Interlake Steamship Log, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 1
"Original Steel Products Fleet" taken from The Inland Seas, 1947
File – Box 2, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1947
Excerpt from "The Story of Dundas" by J. Smyth Carter, 1905
File – Box 2, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1905
"Trends in Great Lakes Waterways Transportation" by John L. Horton, 1964
File – Box 2, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1964
"Index to Great Lakes Schooners in Anchor News, 1979-1985" by Ed Warner, 1986
File – Box 2, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1986
"The Navy on the Great Lakes", speech by K. Jack Bauer, 1984
File – Box 2, Folder: 6
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- Creation: 1984
"Pioneer Entrepreneurship in the Genessee Country: George Clinton Latta as a Case Study" by Joan L. Sullivan, circa 1984
File – Box 2, Folder: 7
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- Creation: circa 1984
"Captain Samuel Ward: Pioneer of Great Lake Transportation, 1784-1854" by Raymond M. Donahue, 1973
File – Box 2, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1973
Canadian Pilotage Controversy materials, 1957, 1973
File – Box 2, Folder: 9
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- Creation: 1957
- Creation: 1973
"The Development of the Port of Toledo, 1946-1966", thesis bibliography by Allen Dickes, 1970
File – Box 2, Folder: 10
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- Creation: 1970
"A New England Builder of Ships for the Great Lakes: The Blount Marine Corporation" by Albin Jackman, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 11
"History of USS NEW BEDFORD" by the Navy Department, 1952
File – Box 2, Folder: 12
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- Creation: 1952
Remarks by Normal T. Hall, President of the Dominion Marine Association to the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Great Lakes Ports, June 24, 1985
File – Box 2, Folder: 13
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- Creation: June 24, 1985
Talk Delivered Before the Illinois Committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry by D.J. McGarity, Vice President of Great Lakes Towing Company, 1958
File – Box 2, Folder: 14
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- Creation: 1958
"U.S. Coast Guard Mobilization Assignments: A New Role", address given by Rear Admiral Henry H. Bell to the Federal Emergency Management Civil/Military Coordination Conference, 1983
File – Box 2, Folder: 15
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- Creation: 1983
"First and Last Ships Through the American Locks at Massena" by Daniel McCormick, 1985
File – Box 2, Folder: 16
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- Creation: 1985
"Comments on Professor Peter Marshall's Paper Entitled 'The Incorporation of Quebec in the British Empire, 1763-1774'" by Pierre Tousignant, 1970
File – Box 2, Folder: 17
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- Creation: 1970
"Welcome Aboard", Huron Fleet Information, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 18
Typescripts of six articles taken from the newspaper Milwaukee Trade and Commerce, 1863-1877
File – Box 2, Folder: 19
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- Creation: 1863-1877
"A Lake Erie Mystery" by Ted King, including related correspondence, 1957
File – Box 2, Folder: 20
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- Creation: 1957
U.S. Coast Guard Legal Notices to Mariners 1-6, 1956
File – Box 2, Folder: 21
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- Creation: 1956
"The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project", Reprinted from the periodical External Affairs, 1954
File – Box 2, Folder: 22
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- Creation: 1954
"The Skipper of the Golden Age" by Clarence S. Metcalf, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 23
"Early Marine Society", typescript of article, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 24
"Shipwrecks of the North Shore of Lake Superior" by Dr. Julian F. Wolff, Jr., and correspondence with Richard J. Wright, 1960
File – Box 2, Folder: 25
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- Creation: 1960
Untitled paper regarding the Great Storm of 1913, n.d.
File – Box 2, Folder: 26
Correspondence and typescript of Toronto Star article "The Graveyard of 10,000 Ships", 1957
File – Box 2, Folder: 27
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- Creation: 1957
Excerpts from American Paddle Steamboats by Carl D. Lane, 1943
File – Box 2, Folder: 28
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- Creation: 1943
"Adz, Caulk, and Rivets: A History of Ship Building Along Ohio's Northern Shore", Master's Thesis by Richard J. Wright, 1963
File – Box 2, Folder: 29
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- Creation: 1963
"An Administrative History of the Bureau of Ships During World War I" (photocopy), prepared by the Historical Section, Bureau of Ships, n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 1
"The Workers of the Great Lakes" by Jesse Lynch Williams from The Outing magazine (photocopy), 1905
File – Box 3, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1905
"Wasteful Use of Large Ways" by S.M. Evans from Conditions Affecting Ship Production (photocopy), 1918
File – Box 3, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1918
"Milwaukee is Recalled as Shipbuilding Center" from the Milwaukee Journal (photocopy), March 24, 1949
File – Box 3, Folder: 4
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- Creation: March 24, 1949
"Sovereign Rights and Relations in the Control and Use of American Waters" by Ernest C. Carman in Southern California Law Review (photocopy), 1929-1930
File – Box 3, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1929-1930
"Lake, River Boats, and Masters", Toledo newspaper article about Duncan and Andrew Stalker (photocopy), n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 6
"The Scotchmen's Reception": Typescripts of a series of articles from the Wyandotte Herald, 1881
File – Box 3, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1881
"Sheridan, New York - Home of the Captains of the Great Lakes" by R.D. Borthwick, n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 8
"Goodrich Boats" by H.L. Palmer, n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 9
Pamphlets: "The Great Lakes: Their History and Commerce, Romance and Legends", n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 10
Richard Wright article on Great Lakes shipping for the Christian Science Monitor, 1984
File – Box 3, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1984
"A View of the Great Lakes in 1648: An Appreciation of 'Les Relations des Jesuites'" by Theodore D. Wakefield for Inland Seas (photocopy), 1976
File – Box 3, Folder: 12
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- Creation: 1976
"The Northern Lake Frontier During the Civil War" by J.M. Callahan in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association (photocopy), 1896
File – Box 3, Folder: 13
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- Creation: 1896
"The Early History of Sodus Light Station" by Anne M. Henry, n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 14
"The Pultneyville Shipping Industry of the 1800s", n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 15
"The History of Bear Creek Harbor" by Stephen LaCount, April 1968
File – Box 3, Folder: 16
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- Creation: April 1968
"History of Crawford's Quarry" by Gerald Micketti, 1984
File – Box 3, Folder: 17
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- Creation: 1984
Talk before the St. Louis [MN] County Historical Society by W.R. Hawkins, Public Relations Director of Fraser-Nelson Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Inc., March 26, 1963
File – Box 3, Folder: 18
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- Creation: March 26, 1963
"Commercial History of Milwaukee" by J.D. Holton from Wisconsin Historical Collections (photocopy), 1859
File – Box 3, Folder: 19
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- Creation: 1859
"Down Memory Lane" article from the Manitoulin Recorder including list of vessels engaged in trade along Georgian Bay and Lake Huron in 1862 (photocopy), n.d., 1984
File – Box 3, Folder: 20
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- Creation: 1984
"Steamboat Mail Transportation on the Great Lakes: The Ward Steamship Lines" by W.L. Babcock (photocopy), n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 21
Selected pages and articles from "People and Places Section", Great Lakes Gazette (photocopies), 1975
File – Box 3, Folder: 22
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- Creation: 1975
Typescript of newspaper excerpts from the Galveston Daily News on the Steam Canal Boat STORM sent by Eric Steinfeldt, 1984
File – Box 3, Folder: 23
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- Creation: 1984
"Launch of the DAVID DOWS", typescript of article from the Toledo Blade, April 21, 1881
File – Box 3, Folder: 24
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- Creation: April 21, 1881
"The Bradley Fleet" by Gerald Micketti, 1989
File – Box 3, Folder: 25
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- Creation: 1989
News Release: Pickands Mather Opens 1981 Season, 1981
File – Box 3, Folder: 26
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- Creation: 1981
Typescript of selections from the Toledo Blade pertaining to steamer IROQUOIS, 1901-1902
File – Box 3, Folder: 27
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- Creation: 1901-1902
Typescript of "Steamer CITY OF TOLEDO" from Boats and Boating magazine, January 15, 1971
File – Box 3, Folder: 28
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- Creation: January 15, 1971
Issue of the Northern Navigation regarding the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 29
"Commercial Statistics: Detroit River and St. Clair Flats Canal, MI" by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1903
File – Box 3, Folder: 30
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- Creation: 1903
"The Impact of the Wreck of the EDMUND FITZGERALD", high school paper by Scott Bressler, 1977
File – Box 3, Folder: 31
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- Creation: 1977
"History of Jurisdictional [Pilotage] Dispute with Canada", n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 32
"The Maritime Administration's Commercial Ice Transiting Marine Transportation Systems Program", paper presented by Paul B. Mentz before the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1973
File – Box 3, Folder: 33
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- Creation: 1973
"Getting Off the Gold Standard", Keynote address by Richard A. Gould at 1983 Conference on Underwater Archaeology, 1983
File – Box 3, Folder: 34
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- Creation: 1983
Typescript of articles from Inland Ocean regarding Shipbuilding, April-July 1899
File – Box 3, Folder: 35
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- Creation: April-July 1899
"Regulations Prescribing Method of Determining Profit" by the U.S. Maritime Commission, 1939
File – Box 3, Folder: 36
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- Creation: 1939
Issues of the Belgian Shiplover relating to World War I Shipbuilding, 1961-1963
File – Box 4, Folder: 37
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- Creation: 1961-1963
Reproductions of 17th-18th century French maps held by the Detroit Historical Museum, n.d.
File – Box 3, Folder: 38
"Administrative History of the Ninth Naval District" first draft by Edmond S. Meany, 1946
File – Box 4, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1946
"How the Shipyards are Speeding up to Challenge the U-Boats" from Current Opinion (photocopy), September 1917
File – Box 4, Folder: 2
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- Creation: September 1917
"American Promise and Performance in Regard to Ships and Aeroplanes" from Current Opinion (photocopy), May 1918
File – Box 4, Folder: 3
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- Creation: May 1918
"Navy's New Destroyer Escort Vessels" from Marine Engineering and Shipping Review (photocopy), April 1943
File – Box 4, Folder: 4
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- Creation: April 1943
"Wartime Employment, Production, and Conditions of Work in Shipyards", Bulletin 824 produced by the U.S. Department of Labor, 1948
File – Box 4, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1948
"Our Inland Seas", term paper by Richard Wright, n.d.
File – Box 4, Folder: 6
"The Industrial World: Turning our Skyscrapers into Fleets of Cargo Ships" from Current Opinion (photocopy), November 1918
File – Box 4, Folder: 7
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- Creation: November 1918
Marine and Dock Night Annual Banquet, Evergreen Lodge No. 222, Program, 1945
File – Box 4, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1945
Pamphlet: Christening of the M/V ROY A. JODREY, November 9, 1965
File – Box 4, Folder: 9
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- Creation: November 9, 1965
"Give Us a Chance: Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes During World War One" by Richard Wright, 1983-1984
File – Box 4, Folder: 10
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- Creation: 1983-1984
Richard Wright Speeches, Comments, etc., 1967-1986
File – Box 4, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1967-1986
"Salvage of the M/V MONTROSE" by Sherman Serre and Frederick E. Krause, paper present before the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, October 24, 1963
File – Box 4, Folder: 12
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- Creation: October 24, 1963
"Handbook on Employment Management in the Shipyard: Labor Loss", U.S. Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, 1918-1919
File – Box 4, Folder: 13
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- Creation: 1918-1919
Photocopies of various articles on World War I Shipbuilding, 1918
File – Box 4, Folder: 14
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- Creation: 1918
Miscellaneous articles and programs, 1933-1967 (scattered dates)
File – Box 4, Folder: 15
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- Creation: 1933-1967 (scattered dates)
Issue of Speed-Up, Col. 1, No. 34, September 14, 1918
File – Box 4, Folder: 16
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- Creation: September 14, 1918
Hanna Line Lake Vessels, Spring Meeting, 1971
File – Box 4, Folder: 17
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- Creation: 1971
Typescripts of Marine Excerpts from the Cleveland Weekly Herald, 1819-1828
File – Box 4, Folder: 18
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- Creation: 1819-1828
Typescripts of Marine Excerpts from the Cleveland Weekly Herald, 1829-1834
File – Box 5, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1829-1834
Typescripts of Marine Excerpts from the Cleveland Weekly Advertiser and Cleveland Daily Herald, 1835
File – Box 5, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1835
Typescripts of Marine Excerpts from the Cleveland Weekly Advertiser and Cleveland Daily Herald, 1836-1837
File – Box 5, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1836-1837
Typescripts of Marine Excerpts from the Cleveland Daily Herald and Gazette, 1838
File – Box 5, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1838
Typescripts of Excerpts from the Cleveland Daily Herald and Gazette, 1839
File – Box 5, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1839
Typescripts of Marine Excerpts from the Cleveland Daily Herald, 1840
File – Box 5, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1840
Typescripts of Marine Excerpts from Nile's National Register (Baltimore), 1841
File – Box 5, Folder: 6
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- Creation: 1841
Typescripts of Marine Excerpts from the Cleveland Weekly Herald and Cleveland Daily Herald, 1847
File – Box 5, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1847
Issue of The Herald, Vol. 7, No. 4 (publication of the Henry Ford Museum), 1978
File – Box 5, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1978
Correspondence, 1790-1984
Series
Series consists of correspondence to and from Dr. Wright, as well as between other researchers, on matters of Great Lakes maritime history. Also included are photocopies of historical correspondence from various libraries/archives.
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- Creation: 1790-1984
Correspondence from Frank Huyck to Richard Wright concerning the CYPRUS, June 5, 1961
File – Box 5, Folder: 9
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- Creation: June 5, 1961
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1916-1983
File – Box 5, Folder: 10
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- Creation: 1916-1983
Correspondence regarding steamer LITTLE MAC, 1944
File – Box 5, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1944
Richard Wright correspondence regarding shipbuilders in Sturgeon Bay, WI, 1970-1972
File – Box 5, Folder: 12
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- Creation: 1970-1972
Request for information in Scandinavian vessels, 1975
File – Box 5, Folder: 13
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- Creation: 1975
Letters from Edward Middleton regarding PETOSKEY and SOO CITY, 1975
File – Box 5, Folder: 14
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- Creation: 1975
Richard Wright correspondence with the Canadian Department of National Defense, including ship info list, 1972
File – Box 5, Folder: 15
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- Creation: 1972
Correspondence regarding Allpax HP2M High Pressure Valve Stem, 1973
File – Box 5, Folder: 16
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- Creation: 1973
Letter from A.L. Bland regarding MAPLEHILL, 1958
File – Box 5, Folder: 17
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- Creation: 1958
Correspondence: Hand Wai Shipping Company with Hanna Mining Company
File – Box 5, Folder: 18
Letters pertaining to the burning of PHOENIX (photocopies), 1847
File – Box 5, Folder: 19
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- Creation: 1847
Letter from Ernest Thornhill, former radio operator on the Great Lakes, April 2, 1975
File – Box 5, Folder: 20
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- Creation: April 2, 1975
"Coho Salmon Experiment in Lake Michigan": letter from Captain E. D. Ing, U.S. Coast Guard, 1973
File – Box 5, Folder: 21
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- Creation: 1973
Correspondence and Bill S-220: transfer of WOLVERINE (ex-MICHIGAN) to Great Lakes ownership and Temporary Load Line Certificate for same, 1945, 1984
File – Box 5, Folder: 22
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- Creation: 1945
- Creation: 1984
Elmer Treloar correspondence concerning photo donations, July 4, 1972
File – Box 5, Folder: 23
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- Creation: July 4, 1972
"Random Ship Notes" and correspondence, 1980-1981
File – Box 5, Folder: 24
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- Creation: 1980-1981
Correspondence with Milwaukee Public Library, including obituary of Lemuel Ellsworth, shipbuilder, 1968
File – Box 5, Folder: 25
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- Creation: 1968
Letter from Thomas W. Rose, a sailor (photocopy), 1887
File – Box 5, Folder: 26
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- Creation: 1887
Earl Wright, letter/booklet from "Bibby" regarding Officers' school, 1943
File – Box 5, Folder: 27
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- Creation: 1943
Vessel correspondence and Naval history bibliography, 1956-1968
File – Box 6, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1956-1968
Correspondence concerning the construction of a vessel sloop by Eliphalet Beebe (photocopies), 1790-1798
File – Box 6, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1790-1798
James McMillen correspondence: business and personal (photocopies), 1899
File – Box 6, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1899
The H.D. Coffinberry Letters (photocopies), 1882-1888
File – Box 6, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1882-1888
National Archives Vessel Information Replies, 1966
File – Box 6, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1966
Canadian Shipbuilding & Engineering, Ltd., correspondence regarding three 715-foot vessels for M.A. Hanna Company, 1957-1958
File – Box 6, Folder: 6
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- Creation: 1957-1958
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, 1951
File – Box 6, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1951
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, February-May 1952
File – Box 6, Folder: 8
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- Creation: February-May 1952
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, June-October 1952
File – Box 6, Folder: 9
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- Creation: June-October 1952
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, November 1952
File – Box 6, Folder: 10
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- Creation: November 1952
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, 1953
File – Box 6, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1953
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, 1954
File – Box 6, Folder: 12
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- Creation: 1954
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, 1958
File – Box 6, Folder: 13
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- Creation: 1958
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, 1959
File – Box 6, Folder: 14
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- Creation: 1959
W.R. Williams to Frank E. Hamilton, 1962
File – Box 6, Folder: 15
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- Creation: 1962
Seaman's Church Institute of New York to Rev. Edward J. Dowling, March 22, 1955
File – Box 6, Folder: 16
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- Creation: March 22, 1955
Charles Dow to Frank Phillips: barge CONSTITUTION towed by steamer VICTORY, April 20, 1952
File – Box 6, Folder: 17
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- Creation: April 20, 1952
C. Patrick Labadie to a Mrs. Eklund concerning the barge PLYMTOUH, n.d.
File – Box 6, Folder: 18
James McMillan, President, to stockholders concerning financial conditions of Detroit Transportation Company, Hamtramck Transportation Company, and Duluth &Atlantic Transportation Company (photocopy), January 11, 1895
File – Box 6, Folder: 19
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- Creation: January 11, 1895
Letter from the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company, G. Carter, General Manager, to James McMillan, concerning boat drawings (photocopy), August 30, 1892
File – Box 6, Folder: 20
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- Creation: August 30, 1892
Frank E. Hamilton to May Hesselbart regarding vessels built on the Portage River (Ohio), February 16, 1960
File – Box 7, Folder: 1
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- Creation: February 16, 1960
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with Herbert Spencer, 1965
File – Box 7, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1965
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with Richard Cary, Jr., 1965-1967
File – Box 7, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1965-1967
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with May Hesslebart, 1960
File – Box 7, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1960
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with Marian Cleary, 1964
File – Box 7, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1964
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with J.F. Johnston, Jr., 1965
File – Box 7, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1965
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with Leon Reussille, 1966-1967
File – Box 7, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1966-1967
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with Walter C. Cowles, 1954-1964 (scattered dates)
File – Box 7, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1954-1964 (scattered dates)
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with American Shipbuilding Company, 1958, 1960
File – Box 7, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1958
- Creation: 1960
Frank E. Hamilton correspondence with George A. Nunamaker, February 3, 1967
File – Box 7, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: February 3, 1967
Herman Runge correspondence and vessel information, 1936-1944
File – Box 7, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1936-1944
Correspondence regarding the Herman Runge Collection at the Milwaukee Public Library, 1958-1959
File – Box 7, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1958-1959
George Ayoub to Father E.J. Dowling regarding the disposition of Canadian canal-size freighters, 1962, 1970
File – Box 7, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1962
- Creation: 1970
Walter Remick incoming correspondence, 1956-1958
File – Box 7, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1956-1958
Correspondence regarding the American and British fleets at the Battle of Lake Erie, n.d.
File – Box 7, Folder: 15
Nels Wilson to Rev. Peter J. Vanderlinden concerning the SIMON LANGELL and WILLIAM JOHNSTON, November 11, 1971
File – Box 7, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: November 11, 1971
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company correspondence, March 1909
File – Box 7, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: March 1909
D.D. Davis and H.H. Hyde to Charles Blood, Clover Leaf Steamboat Line, October-November 1893
File – Box 7, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: October-November 1893
W. Winger and George Winter to Charles Blood, including originals and transcriptions, 1893-1894
File – Box 7, Folder: 19
- Dates
- Creation: 1893-1894
W.L. Crowell to Charles Blood, 1893-1894
File – Box 7, Folder: 20
- Dates
- Creation: 1893-1894
Charles Blood correspondence, 1904-1907, 1940-1946
File – Box 7, Folder: 21
- Dates
- Creation: 1904-1907
- Creation: 1940-1946
Charles Blood correspondence with J.R. Earnest and William Goodyear, 1893-1895
File – Box 7, Folder: 22
- Dates
- Creation: 1893-1895
Clover Leaf Steamboat Line to Charles Blood, 1893-1894
File – Box 7, Folder: 23
- Dates
- Creation: 1893-1894
Brown & Geddes Law Firm to C.D. Murray, June-July 1895
File – Box 7, Folder: 24
- Dates
- Creation: June-July 1895
Toledo, St. Louis, & Kansas City Railway to Clarence Brown and H.J. Murray, August-September 1894
File – Box 7, Folder: 25
- Dates
- Creation: August-September 1894
James Easton, William Goodyear, and J.H. Hogan to Charles Blood, 1894
File – Box 7, Folder: 26
- Dates
- Creation: 1894
J.M. Stoddard and E.B. Wheeler to Charles Blood, 1893-1894
File – Box 7, Folder: 27
- Dates
- Creation: 1893-1894
Richard Wright correspondence with Land Title Guarantee and Trust Company of Cleveland, OH, attempting to locate the site of the former Quayle and Martin shipyard, March-April 1962
File – Box 9, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: March-April 1962
Mark S. Braun correspondence and photos regarding shipwrecks off Grosse Point, IL, 1985
File – Box 10, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1985
Correspondence with Robert Wright of Hanna Mining Company regarding a Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association letter, 1984
File – Box 10, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1984
Manuscript Material, 1817-1983, bulk: 1862-1979
Series
This series contains a wide variety of original, photocopied, and transcripted materials produced and/or collected by Dr. Wright during his years of research on the Great Lakes region. The largest set of records is a series of 24 journals (Boxes 23-24) kept by Charles B. Calder from 1895-1918. At various times Calder served as a Chief Engineer, Superintendent of Dry Dock Engine Works, Superintendent of Detroit Shipbuilding Company, and General Manager of Toledo Shipbuilding Company. Another notable segment is five marine news scrapbooks compiled by Captain Frank E. Hamilton, who long served as master of the PUT-IN-BAY with service to the Lake Erie islands. Other materials include narratives, company records, notes, drawings, U.S. Customs records, U.S. Life-Saving Service records, and many others.
- Dates
- Creation: 1817-1983
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1862-1979
Rush-Bagot Treaty resources, 1892-1969
File – Box 7, Folder: 28
- Dates
- Creation: 1892-1969
Materials regarding the loss of the DEAN RICHMOND on October 14, 1893, 1893-1946
File – Box 8, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1893-1946
Duluth-Superior Harbor Map, n.d.
File – Box 8, Folder: 2
Sea Trial Agenda for M/V GEORGE A. STINSON, August 1978
File – Box 8, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: August 1978
Drawings for conversion of WALTER E. WATSON (formerly YOUNGSTOWN) to crane boat (YD 1215-59-2-3), 1973
File – Box 8, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1973
Steamer QUICNY M. SHAW Log Sheet for Trip #7, July 2-13 (no year given)
File – Box 8, Folder: 5
Steamer QUINCY M. SHAW Log Sheet for Trip #13, September 15-29, 1913
File – Box 8, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: September 15-29, 1913
Surveyor's Certificate of Admeasurement for Steamers, Port of Goderich, Ontario, for steamer BRUCE, n.d.
File – Box 8, Folder: 7
List of vessels sold by Great Lakes Steamship Company to Wilson Marine Transit Company on January 1, 1957, n.d.
File – Box 8, Folder: 8
Statement concerning Cedar Point, Ohio, October 11, 1927
File – Box 8, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: October 11, 1927
Narrative of the loss of the steamer SEVONA, September 1905
File – Box 8, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: September 1905
Miscellaneous manuscripts by Frank E. Hamilton, 1894, n.d.
File – Box 8, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1894, n.d.
Great Lakes Vessels Removed to Overseas Ports for Scrapping, 1960-1969
File – Box 8, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1960-1969
George T. Davie & Sons, Ltd., Levis, Quebec, and Canadian Vickers, Ltd., Division, Scrapping Record, 1935-1966
File – Box 8, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1935-1966
United Shipyards, Ltd. Montreal, Quebec, Scrapping Record, 1942-1945
File – Box 8, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1942-1945
Blount Marine, Inc., Warren, OH; Keels Laid, Launched, and Delivered, 1949-1970
File – Box 8, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1949-1970
Hulls launched by George T. Davie & Sons, Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Davie Shipbuilding, Ltd., 1897-1970
File – Box 8, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: 1897-1970
List of Vessels Built by Davie Shipbuilding, Ltd., 1897-1962
File – Box 8, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: 1897-1962
List of Hulls Built by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, 1902-1960
File – Box 8, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: 1902-1960
World War II Naval Construction on the Great Lakes, 1940-1945
File – Box 8, Folder: 19
- Dates
- Creation: 1940-1945
Description of steamer CITY OF ROME, n.d.
File – Box 8, Folder: 20
History of Interlake Steamship Company, 1906-1955, n.d.
File – Box 8, Folder: 21
Poem: "Trip of the MINNIE M. as told by the Purser", n.d.
File – Box 8, Folder: 22
Great Lakes Historical Society Insurance Appraisal, 1967
File – Box 8, Folder: 23
- Dates
- Creation: 1967
Records and correspondence from Great Lakes Boat Building Company of Milwaukee, September-November 1918
File – Box 8, Folder: 24
- Dates
- Creation: September-November 1918
McDougall-Duluth Shipbuilding Company records relating to World War I production, 1917-1922
File – Box 8, Folder: 25
- Dates
- Creation: 1917-1922
Globe Shipbuilding Company records relating to World War I production, 1918-1923
File – Box 8, Folder: 26
- Dates
- Creation: 1918-1923
Saginaw Shipbuilding Company records relating to World War I production, 1918-1922
File – Box 8, Folder: 27
- Dates
- Creation: 1918-1922
Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company records relating to World War I production, 1917-1919
File – Box 8, Folder: 28
- Dates
- Creation: 1917-1919
Specifications for unknown vessels, 1926, n.d.
File – Box 8, Folder: 29
- Dates
- Creation: 1926, n.d.
FRANK E. VIGOR vessel information, 1944-1960
File – Box 9, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1944-1960
ONTARIO vessel information, 1957
File – Box 9, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1957
American Bureau of Shipping Engine Certificates, No. 1701-1712, 1943-1944
File – Box 9, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1943-1944
BRUNSWICK vessel information, 1944
File – Box 9, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1944
NASHUA vessel information, 1938-1957
File – Box 9, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1938-1957
Silver Creek, NY, Lighthouse information, October 1952
File – Box 9, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: October 1952
Dunkirk, NY, information, 1889, 1957
File – Box 9, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1889
- Creation: 1957
"PENNSYLVANIA, OWANA, and ERIE" by Frank E. Hamilton, 1957
File – Box 9, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1957
Port Dover, Ontario, historical information, 1944, n.d.
File – Box 9, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1944, n.d.
CLARION vessel data cards (photostats), 1909
File – Box 9, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1909
Shipping Contract for GEORGE STONE, transportation of cargo to Collingwood, Ontario, 1908
File – Box 9, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1908
NORMAN vessel information cards (photostats), n.d.
File – Box 9, Folder: 13
"AYCLIFFE HALL Collision" by Jack M. Ballengee, 1936
File – Box 9, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1936
John C. Ehmke's remembrances of serving during the Storm of 1905, n.d.
File – Box 9, Folder: 15
Loss of the propeller IDAHO, n.d.
File – Box 9, Folder: 16
Loss of WESTERN RESERVE, n.d.
File – Box 9, Folder: 17
Rum Runners, 1958
File – Box 9, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: 1958
Conneaut, OH, historical documentation, 1849-1851, 1957-1958
File – Box 9, Folder: 19
- Dates
- Creation: 1849-1851
- Creation: 1957-1958
Lists of vessels built/scrapped in Ontario and Quebec, compiled by Herman Runge and edited by Richard Wright, n.d.
File – Box 9, Folder: 20
Typescripts of newspaper articles about Great Lakes vessels from Canadian newspapers, 1849-1865
File – Box 9, Folder: 21
- Dates
- Creation: 1849-1865
Schooner EDWARD KELLEY Trip Log, 1906-1915
File – Box 9, Folder: 22
- Dates
- Creation: 1906-1915
Vessel notes taken from the World Ship Society, 1967-1971
File – Box 10, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1967-1971
Vessel updates from the monthly list of U.S. Merchant Vessels, May 1974-October 1980
File – Box 10, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: May 1974-October 1980
Various vessel histories, 1959-1984
File – Box 10, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1959-1984
Fleet lists for Quebec & Ottawa Transportation Company and Hindman Transportation Company compiled by Al Jackman, 1984
File – Box 10, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1984
Herman Runge Fleet Lists, Vol. 1, compiled by Al Jackman, 1984
File – Box 10, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1984
William Reed documents, including U.S. Coast Guard license, 1940-1947
File – Box 10, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1940-1947
Propeller KALIYUGA, Affidavit relative to Samples of Steel and Tensile Tests, 1897
File – Box 10, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1897
Documents relating to the collision of the steamer A.E. STEWART with a pier in the Cuyahoga River, 1913
File – Box 10, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1913
List of Lake Erie Shipwrecks from 1797-1944, n.d.
File – Box 10, Folder: 11
Information on the Vermilion, OH, West Pierhead Lighthouse (photocopies), 1909, 1929, 1983
File – Box 10, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1909
- Creation: 1929
- Creation: 1983
U.S. Military Procurement and Great Lakes Shipyards, 1984
File – Box 10, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1984
List of vessels with secondhand engines, n.d.
File – Box 11, Folder: 1
Herman Runge's U.S. Shipping Board Vessel List, 1920
File – Box 11, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1920
Cunard Line Timetables, Menus, and ephemera, 1900, 1950
File – Box 11, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1900
- Creation: 1950
Newspaper clippings and notes relating to war vessels on the Great Lakes, 1892-1898
File – Box 11, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1892-1898
Ephemera and inventory of books, Great Lakes Historical Society, n.d.
File – Box 11, Folder: 5
Great Lakes vessel index for 1854, n.d.
File – Box 11, Folder: 6
Lay-up lists for Duluth-Superior area and Sturgeon Bay, WI, 1973-1974
File – Box 11, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1973-1974
Code of Signals and Emergency Signals, 1935
File – Box 11, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1935
Memorial service program for Captain Edward Crosby, a Great Lakes master who was lost on the TITANIC (photocopy), 1912
File – Box 11, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1912
Sketch of locations of Cleveland's historical shipyards, n.d.
File – Box 11, Folder: 10
List of vessel casualties on the Great Lakes, 1848-1898, n.d.
File – Box 11, Folder: 11
Lake Carriers' Association releases and statements, 1955-1975
File – Box 11, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1955-1975
Losses on the Lakes, 1847-1858, 1864-1883, n.d.
File – Box 11, Folder: 13
Winter lay-up and mooring lists from Marine Review (photocopies), 1903, 1906
File – Box 12, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1903
- Creation: 1906
Vessels lost on the Lakes, 1905-1907, 1921-1926, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 2
Fate of the GRIFFON and vessels lost from 1880-1915, compiled by Edward Carus, 1931
File – Box 12, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1931
Lake Erie wreck list compiled by Frank E. Hamilton, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 4
Vessel casualties for 1899-1927, compiled by Frank E. Hamilton, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 5
List of military vessels built on the Great Lakes, compiled by John E. Poole, edited by Richard Wright, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 6
Articles and notes on Conneaut, Ohio, 1941, 1946, 1954, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1941
- Creation: 1946
- Creation: 1954, n.d.
Frank E. Hamilton's list of American and Canadian steamers built 1807-1868, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 8
List of Lighthouses on the St. Lawrence River as of 1895, 1895
File – Box 12, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1895
List of package freighter fleets, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 10
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company steamer operations, compiled by Albert Zillmer, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 11
Known Lake schooners of four masts, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 12
List of Steamboats Built on the Lakes up to 1843, taken from "History of Toledo and Lucas County", Waggoner, 1888, 1888
File – Box 12, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1888
"New vessels added to Lake commerce in 1846" from "A Brief Sketch of the Commerce of the Great Lakes" by James L. Barton, 1847
File – Box 12, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1847
Vessel information replies from the National Archives of Canada, 1960-1966
File – Box 12, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1960-1966
Materials regarding shipbuilding in the Perrysburg, Maumee, and Toledo area, 1888-1898 (scattered dates), 1907, 1963, n.d.
File – Box 12, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: 1888-1898 (scattered dates)
- Creation: 1907
- Creation: 1963, n.d.
Vessel incident and casualty record, 1943-1976
File – Box 13, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1943-1976
Marblehead Life-Saving Station Record of Events, 1877-1887
File – Box 13, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1877-1887
List of vessels built at Defoe Shipbuilding Company, 1912-1965
File – Box 13, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1912-1965
List of vessels built by Christy Corporation, 1942-1964
File – Box 13, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1942-1964
Production Statistics for Navy Patrol Craft (PC) and net layers (AN), Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Corporation, 1941-1944
File – Box 13, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1941-1944
Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding Company vessel list, 1935-1965
File – Box 13, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1935-1965
American Ship Casualties of the World War, 1915-1918
File – Box 13, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1915-1918
List of tugs built by Northwest Engineering Works, Green Bay, WI, and Whitney Brothers, Superior WI; compiled by Rev. Edward J. Dowling, n.d.
File – Box 13, Folder: 8
List of Wreck Reports (1874-1906) from the U.S. Customs Service, Port Huron, MI (photocopies), n.d.
File – Box 13, Folder: 9
Vessel construction data for O.O. CARPENTER-ZAPOTEC, n.d.
File – Box 13, Folder: 10
Collision of CHOCTAW and SCOW NO. 33, 1910
File – Box 13, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1910
Great Lakes Tonnage Statistics, 1929-1958
File – Box 13, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1929-1958
Materials on the Royal Navy on the Great Lakes during the Fenian Crisis, 1866-1870, 1965, n.d.
File – Box 13, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1965, n.d.
Richard Wright: Honorable Discharge, U.S. Army, December 1963
File – Box 13, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: December 1963
Northwest Ohio-Great Lakes Research Center Master Plan, 1974
File – Box 13, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1974
Assignments using Center for Archival Collections materials; Richard Wright comments to faculty, n.d.
File – Box 13, Folder: 16
History classes, 1983
File – Box 13, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: 1983
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Proposal, 1983
File – Box 13, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: 1983
International Ship Masters' Association Grant, 1979-1980
File – Box 14, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1979-1980
American Great Lakes Ore Carriers Record, 1949
File – Box 14, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1949
New Lake Vessels chart, compiled by the M.A. Hanna Company, 1951
File – Box 14, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1951
Vessels of U.S. Registry: Steel Bulk Freighters, 1892-1951
File – Box 14, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1892-1951
Table of Sailing Time Between Principle Lake Ports, from "Lore of the Lakes" by Dana Thomas Bowen, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 5
United States Naval Forces on the Great Lakes - War of 1812, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 6
Annual Report: Who Owns a Derelict?, 1951
File – Box 14, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1951
Amoco 78 RPM Safety Record featuring "I'm Just a Steering Wheel" and "Amoco Sales Songs", n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 8
Wakefield Museum of the Great Lakes Historical Society Dedication Ceremony Program, 1953
File – Box 14, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1953
Memo to All Unlicensed Seamen on Vessels Managed by the M.A. Hanna Company Regarding Benefit and Pension Increase, 1955
File – Box 14, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1955
Ore and Coal Capacity data chart for 13 vessels, 1915
File – Box 14, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1915
"Tonnage Handled in Bulk Freight Vessels on the Great Lakes, 1929-1955" compiled by M.A. Hanna Company, 1956
File – Box 14, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1956
"American Great Lakes Ore Carriers: Arranged According to Fleets and Carrying Capacity" chart packet, 1956
File – Box 14, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1956
"American Lake Ore Vessels" chart, compiled by M.A. Hanna Company, 1934
File – Box 14, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1934
Report of ship construction completed by the United States Maritime Commission, 1968
File – Box 14, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1968
Copies of Canadian and American salvage laws with Richard Wright correspondence, 1960
File – Box 14, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: 1960
Master Carpenter's Certificate for the O.O. CARPENTER (photocopy), 1891
File – Box 14, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: 1891
Certificate of Efficiency to Lifeboat Man G.A. Suckow from the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1916
File – Box 14, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: 1916
Whistle Signal Guide from Captain Emory L. Massman for Interlake Steamship Company (1920) and Nicholson Steamship Company (1926), 1975
File – Box 14, Folder: 19
- Dates
- Creation: 1975
LAC STE. ANNE Voyage Season Information, 1979-1980, 1982
File – Box 14, Folder: 20
- Dates
- Creation: 1979-1980
- Creation: 1982
List of historic books relating to Canada and Canadian history, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 21
Notes: Welland and St. Lawrence Canals history; List of vessels laid-up at Buffalo, NY, 1851; Steamboats on Lake Erie, 1839; Canadian boats, 1845; Buffalo-Detroit Line, 1830-1840; Buffalo-Chicago Line, 1836; county histories; n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 22
List of C1-M-AV1-Class vessels built on the Great Lakes, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 23
Early Lake Ontario Steamboat Companies and Operators, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 24
Various Transport Canada vessel data, 1981
File – Box 14, Folder: 25
- Dates
- Creation: 1981
Staffing information for American Steamship Company and Columbia Transportation Company vessels, 1981, 1985
File – Box 14, Folder: 26
- Dates
- Creation: 1981
- Creation: 1985
Steamer CHIPPEWA history by Frank E. Hamilton, 1971
File – Box 14, Folder: 27
- Dates
- Creation: 1971
Note acknowledging achievement of Fireman Henry Lawrence of the steamer ARROW, September 22, 1904
File – Box 14, Folder: 27
- Dates
- Creation: September 22, 1904
Documentation of the Shipwreck Preservation Bill H.R. 3194 ("Abandoned Shipwreck Act"), 1984
File – Box 14, Folder: 29
- Dates
- Creation: 1984
Notice to Mariners: passage of CHARLES M. WHITE through the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal, mooring and sailing restrictions, and establishment of unlighted buoys, October 26, 1951
File – Box 14, Folder: 29
- Dates
- Creation: October 26, 1951
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company Stock Certificates, 1898, 1909, 1925
File – Box 14, Folder: 30
- Dates
- Creation: 1898
- Creation: 1909
- Creation: 1925
Drawing of Stoneport Harbor, Alpena, MI, by the Presque Isle Corporation, 1963
File – Box 14, Folder: 31
- Dates
- Creation: 1963
History of Algoma Central Company and Providence Shipping Company, 1890-1960
File – Box 14, Folder: 32
- Dates
- Creation: 1890-1960
Northwest Ohio-Great Lakes Research Center Financial Memorandum and Sources of Outside Funding, 1974
File – Box 14, Folder: 33
- Dates
- Creation: 1974
Richard Wright notes on history vessels, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 34
"The Year 1968 in Review" by Richard Wright, 1969
File – Box 14, Folder: 35
- Dates
- Creation: 1969
Professor [Richard] Wright's Listing of Naval Material on the 9th District of the U.S. Coast Guard, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 36
Additions to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Shipwreck Listing - Keweenaw Peninsula area, Lake Superior, 1976
File – Box 14, Folder: 37
- Dates
- Creation: 1976
Notes on ownership and engine alterations for various vessels, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 38
Vessel histories for ABERT and ANTELOPE, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 39
Marine Historical Society of Detroit Survey of Shipbuilding on and for the Great Lakes, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 40
List of vessels laid-up in Duluth-Superior Harbor, 1970-1971
File – Box 14, Folder: 41
- Dates
- Creation: 1970-1971
Vessel changes from the monthly U.S. Merchant Vessel List, Eleanor Thompson, and the World Ship Society, 1969-1971
File – Box 14, Folder: 42
- Dates
- Creation: 1969-1971
Disasters on the Lakes in 1857: taken from the Marine News Columns of the Chicago Daily Press and the scrapbooks of Eber Ward, n.d.
File – Box 14, Folder: 43
Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company Cargo Summary Pages, 1968-1983
File – Box 14, Folder: 44
- Dates
- Creation: 1968-1983
Numeric log of ships entering the Saginaw River during the 1985-1987 sailing seasons, 1985-1987
File – Box 14, Folder: 45
- Dates
- Creation: 1985-1987
Documentation of proceedings between Michigan Interstate Railway Company and the Michigan Department of Transportation, 1982-1986
File – Box 14, Folder: 46
- Dates
- Creation: 1982-1986
Steamer MARQUETTE & BESSEMER NO. 2 architectural drawings and wreck documentation, 1957
File – Box 15, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1957
Annual Steam Boiler Inspection Certificates for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company Dredge # 7 7-B, 1950-1951
File – Box 15, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1950-1951
Steam Vessel Engineer License and obituary for James Fox (photocopies), 1912-1913
File – Box 15, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1912-1913
Transcripts of Trip Logs for various vessels, 1918-1919
File – Box 15, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1918-1919
St. Lawrence Seaway Application for Vessel Pre-Clearance for NIAGARA (photocopy), 1985
File – Box 15, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1985
Drawing of Steam Whistle Emblem for Bethlehem Steel Boats, 1959
File – Box 15, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1959
Draft of an Informal Statement and Meeting Minutes of the Council of Lake Erie Ports, 1984
File – Box 15, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1984
Resolution: Great Lakes Pilots, Deck Officers, and Engineers Seaway, Navigation, and Commerce Committee, March 29, 1979
File – Box 15, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: March 29, 1979
Bob-Lo Steamers brochures, n.d.
File – Box 15, Folder: 9
Great Lakes Towing Company brochures, July 1958, April 1963
File – Box 15, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: July 1958
- Creation: April 1963
"Advance List" of Provisions for unknown German vessel, 1961
File – Box 15, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1961
- Language of Materials
- German
Transcription of the U.S. Life-Saving Station Wreck Reports from Crisp Point, Lake Superior, 1885-1916
File – Box 15, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1885-1916
Transcription of Index of Enrollments Surrendered at Port Huron, MI, 1866-1897
File – Box 15, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1866-1897
Transcript of Buffalo Index to Enrollments by Erik Heyl for 1817-1865, n.d.
File – Box 15, Folder: 14
Information about Schooners, Barges, Sidewheelers, and Propellers and the Port of Ogdensburg [NY], 1877-1892
File – Box 15, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1877-1892
Wreck Logs, 1928-1959
File – Box 15, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: 1928-1959
Various wreck listings compiled by Richard Wright, 1961-1968
File – Box 15, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: 1961-1968
GEORGE R. FINK Pilothouse Logbook, 1959
Item – Box 16, Item: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1959
THOMAS MILLSOP general disaster file, 1955-1974
File – Box 16, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1955-1974
THOMAS MILLSOP accident reports and insurance claim, 1962-1963
File – Box 16, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1962-1963
THOMAS MILLSOP accident reports and insurance claim, 1962-1975
File – Box 16, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1962-1975
THOMAS MILLSOP accident reports and insurance claim, 1959-1963
File – Box 17, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1959-1963
THOMAS MILLSOP accident reports and insurance claim, 1959-1962
File – Box 17, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1959-1962
THOMAS MILLSOP accident reports and insurance claim, 1962-1967
File – Box 17, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1962-1967
MATTHEW ANDREWS accident reports and insurance claims, 1953-1975
File – Box 17, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1953-1975
LEON FALK, JR., Biogest report, specifications for repairs, 1959, 1962
File – Box 17, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1959
- Creation: 1962
JOSEPH H. THOMPSON Trail report, damage survey, conversion, 1952-1954
File – Box 17, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1952-1954
Collomatic Automatic Electro-Hydraulic Mooring Winch Instruction Book and Parts List, n.d.
File – Box 17, Folder: 7
British Navy on the Upper Lakes, 1777-1779, from Wisconsin Historical Collections, 1888
File – Box 18, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1888
Civil War U.S.-Canadian Relations, articles and research notes, 1861-1962
File – Box 18, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1861-1962
Journal of Shipwrecks - Presque Isle, Pennsylvania (photocopy), 1879-1904
File – Box 18, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1879-1904
Keweenaw Waterway Passages by the EDMUND G. MUDGE, 1919
File – Box 18, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1919
Information page regarding The Lentz Standard Marine Engine, 1968
File – Box 18, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1968
Richard Wright’s Personal Notes & Drawings Regarding Dequindre, Witherell, and St. Aubins Farms, n.d.
File – Box 18, Folder: 6
Excerpts of minutes of the U.S. Maritime Commission, Volumes 52, 67, 68 (photocopies), 1942-1944
File – Box 18, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1942-1944
Scale of Wages Adopted by the Steel Ship Builders of the Lakes for 1897 (photocopy), 1897
File – Box 18, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1897
Miscellaneous notes, Richard J. Wright, n.d.
File – Box 18, Folder: 8
Tracings of maps of Oswego, New York, Harbor (1857) and Inner Oswego Harbor, 1889, 1857, 1889
File – Box 18, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1857
- Creation: 1889
Report: Removal and Disposal of Sunken Vessel BANGOR (photocopy), n.d.
File – Box 18, Folder: 9
"The Year 1971 in Review": vessel reports compiled by E.B. "Skip" Gillham, 1972
File – Box 18, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1972
Notes regarding 1830s shipwrecks and FLORENCE C. wreck in 1892, 1892, n.d.
File – Box 18, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1892, n.d.
Vessel data for tug RALPH (US 135075), n.d.
File – Box 18, Folder: 12
Statement of General and Particular Average and Special Charges on Cargo: The Case of the Steamer SAMUEL MITCHELL, 1922
File – Box 18, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1922
History and Documentation of the Mystery Ship Preservation Society, the Mystery Ship Seaport, and the Acquisition and Preservation of ALVIN C. CLARK, 1971-1984
File – Box 18, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1971-1984
State of Michigan Court Documentation: The Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum v. City of Kalamazoo, 1984
File – Box 18, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1984
Erie Pennsylvania Marine History Documentation Through Selected Articles and Maps (photocopies), 1888-1922 (scattered dates)
File – Box 18, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: 1888-1922 (scattered dates)
Conneaut History Documentation, 1650-1924
File – Box 18, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: 1650-1924
Canadian Defense Information Services Pages: Gate Vessels, Bay Class Ships, HCMS KOOTENAY, 1969, 1972
File – Box 18, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: 1969
- Creation: 1972
Resolution to extend the sympathies of the BGSU Board of Trustees to the family of Dr. Richard J. Wright upon his death, October 10, 1986
Item – Box 19, Item: 1
- Dates
- Creation: October 10, 1986
Richard Wright Collection notes, 1953, 1956, n.d.
File – Box 19, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1953
- Creation: 1956, n.d.
Richard Wright advisory visit to the Manitowoc Maritime Museum, June 1979
File – Box 19, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: June 1979
Dr. Wright's Reading File, July-December 1977
File – Box 19, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: July-December 1977
Dr. Wright's Reading File, January-June 1978
File – Box 19, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: January-June 1978
Dr. Wright's Reading File, July-December 1978
File – Box 19, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: July-December 1978
Dr. Wright's Reading File, January-June 1979
File – Box 19, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: January-June 1979
Dr. Wright's Reading File, July 1979-June 1980
File – Box 19, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: July 1979-June 1980
Globe Iron Works Shipyard Timekeeper's Memo Book, 1894-1923
File – Box 20, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1894-1923
G.A. TOMLINSON Wage Rate Book, 1924
File – Box 20, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1924
Globe Iron Works Account Book, 1920-1922
File – Box 20, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1920-1922
Compilation of biographical data sheets on Great Lakes sailors, n.d.
File – Box 20, Folder: 4
Dry Dock Record Book - Toledo, 1905-1924
File – Box 20, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1905-1924
Maumee Steamship Company contracts and legal documents, 1909-1942
File – Box 21, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1909-1942
Specifications for Twin Screw Diesel-Propelled Bulk Oil Vessel for Coastwise and Inland Water Service, December 15, 1939
File – Box 21, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: December 15, 1939
Crane Creek Fish Company Ledger, 1912-1913
File – Box 21, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1912-1913
Maumee Steamship Company Record Book, 1909-1927
File – Box 21, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1909-1927
Maumee Steamship Company Stock Register, 1909-1927
File – Box 21, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1909-1927
Independent Steamship Company Record Book, 1920-1937
Item – Box 21, Item: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1920-1937
James Madison Jones Shipyard Vessel Index, n.d.
Item – Box 22, Item: 1
Propeller TOLEDO Trip and Account Book, 1856-1910
Item – Box 22, Item: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1856-1910
James Madison Jones Shipyard, Milwaukee, WI, Account Book, 1857
File – Box 22, Item: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1857
Herman Runge: "Schooners of the Great Lakes", n.d.
Item – Box 22, Item: 4
Herman Runge: "Great Lakes Fleets and What Happened to Them", Vol. 1
Item – Box 22, Item: 5
Herman Runge: "Great Lakes Fleets and What Happened to Them", Vol. 2
Item – Box 22, Item: 6
Dry Dock Record Book, unknown shipyard, 1920-1922
Item – Box 22, Item: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1920-1922
Journals of Charles B. Calder, General Manager of Toledo Shipbuilding Company (17 volumes), 1895-1911
File – Box 23
- Dates
- Creation: 1895-1911
Journals of Charles B. Calder (7 volumes - Calder died in 1920), 1912-1918
File – Box 24
- Dates
- Creation: 1912-1918
Unknown journals, 1936, 1945-1947, 1950
File – Box 24
- Dates
- Creation: 1936
- Creation: 1945-1947
- Creation: 1950
Dr. Wright's notes from assorted newspapers, 1898-1915
File – Box 25
- Dates
- Creation: 1898-1915
16mm microfilm - miscellaneous material: histories and statistics for Duluth-Superior area
File – Box 25, Reel: 1
Captain Frank E. Hamilton Lake Erie Islands vessel scrapbook
Item – Volume 1
Marine newspaper article scrapbooks compiled by Frank E. Hamilton, 1961
File – Volume 2-5
- Dates
- Creation: 1961
Code of Whistle Signals, n.d.
File – Box 26, Folder: 1
Rush-Bagot Treaty Correspondence and discussion of naval ships on the Great Lakes (photocopies), 1892-1893
File – Box 26, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1892-1893
U.S. Inspection Certificates, Milwaukee, for Steamers GERMANIC, ALEX NIMICK, ROMANIA, JOHN HARPER, MARION, S.O. DIXON, RAND, TOPEKA, OMAHA, DENVER, J.W. WESTCOTT, ROSWELL P. FLOWER, MERRIMAC, C.W. ELPHICKE, PUEBLO, and MANHATTAN, April 1901
File – Box 26, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: April 1901
Smokestack Emblems of Great Lakes vessels, 1930
File – Box 26, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1930