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Ship's papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Skolfield family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4230
Scope and Content note This collection consists of the personal and business-related papers of the Skolfield family. This includes correspondence, personal papers such as schoolwork, and financial records, including bills, receipts, bank books and accounts, for various members of the Skolfield family, as well as the related Dunning family. The bulk of the collection, however, is comprised of ship and ship building records, including account books, employee records, ship inventories and finances, correspondence...
Dates: 1807 - 1944; Majority of material found within 1826 - 1896

St. John Smith ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 125
Scope and Content note

Fourteen volumes and one letterbook relating to land and lumber investments in Pennsylvania, letters of instruction to vessel captains, and some pertaining to the Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad, recording the vessels and cargoes at Smith's and Widgery's wharf, some with weather observations.

Dates: 1845 - 1880