Box 06

The Dennis M. Powers papers contain research materials including interviews and notes used in the authorship of several books

Various articles on the wreck, salvage, treasure, and rights to the SS Brother Jonathan.

This folder contains various items related to gold coins found on sunken ships. The majority of the items found here come from coinbooks.com, but this file also includes a national geographic article entitled "Lost Gold Bounty From a Civil War Ship."

This folder contains various items related to the salvage, booty, litigation, ownership, and history of the Brother Jonathan.

This folder contains an article from Sea Classics magazine entitled "The Burning of the S.S. Japan" as well as various other articles about sunken treasure, the rights and laws, and the Brother Jonathan.

This folder contains a paper about the SS Pomona. Also included here are a variety of items about maritime events, court cases involving steamships, biographies of San Francisco residents, and some email correspondence between Dennis Powers and others.

This folder contains a photocopied book entitled "Shipwrecks Along the Atlantic Coast" which includes a collection of photographs of maritime accidents.

This folder contains a photocopied book entitled "Captain Thomas A. Scott Master Diver," which is part of a series of publications entitled "True American Types."

This folder contains items related to the history of sunken vessels including articles entitled "The Wreckmaster," "the wonders of Salvage," and the "Black Horse of the Sea."

This folder contains a multitude of stories from magazines from the late 1800s and early 1900s about ships and other things nautical. All of the articles found here were obtained from the interlibrary loan system from various libraries across the country.