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Shipping Records

Creators:: National Portrait Gallery. Office of the Registrar
Dates:: 1971-1995
Size:: 6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:: Accession 01-085
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records that document incoming and outgoing shipments of objects loaned by and to the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include shipping invoices and receipts, object lists, correspondence, and memoranda.

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels]

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Creators:: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:: 1777-1965
Size:: 10.22 Cubic feet (consisting of 20 boxes, 2 folders, 9 oversize folders, 3 map case folders, 3 flat boxes (2 full, 1 partial.))
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Steamboats
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

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William M. Rau Steamship Collection

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Creators:: Rau, William M., 1929-2007
Ellis, Katherine
Dates:: 1900 - 2007
Size:: 100 Cubic feet
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.1306
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Approximately 100 cubic feet of photographs, slides, postcards, scrapbooks, brochures, artwork, drawings, and other ephemera documenting engine-powered vessels of the international maritime industry. Brochures: The brochures are from international passenger lines and cruise lines. They detail both individual ships and shipping lines; they also det...

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John Paul Visscher Papers

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Creators:: Visscher, John Paul, 1895-1950
Dates:: circa 1922-1945 and undated
Size:: 2.36 cu. ft. (4 document boxes) (1 5x8 box)
Collection ID:: Record Unit 7239
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers document Visscher's investigations on marine fouling of ship bottoms and include general correspondence, 1922-1945; photographs of ship fouling; manuscripts; and research notes and reports on ship fouling.

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New England Whaling Schooner Logbooks

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Dates:: 1841-1888
Size:: 1.29 cu. ft. (3 12x17 boxes)
Collection ID:: Accession T90043
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of New England Whaling Schooner logbooks. All ships seem to have had New Bedford, Massachusetts, as home port. Ships documented include the Active, the Adelia Chase, the Adeline Gibbs, the Ohio, and the Thomas Pope.

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Containerization Oral History Collection

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Creators:: Harlander, Leslie
Gibson, Andrew
Donovan, Arthur
Cushing, Charles
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Dates:: 1995-1998
Size:: 0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0639
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Original audio cassettes and transcripts of oral history interviews with individuals involved in the transportation industry known as containerization. Arthur Donovan was the principal interviewer.