Ship registers -- Wisconsin

Photocopies of enrollment certificates, newclippings, typed notes, photographs, correspondence, articles and extracts from published histories and a compiled vessel list, relating to the Slauson Fleet, involved in the Great Lakes lumber and grain trade out of Racine, Wisconsin.

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.