Ships and Shipping

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This item is a photocopy of an entire book entitled Jack London and the Klondike: The Genesis of an American Writer by Franklin Walker (2005).

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The book by J. Welles Henderson and Rodney P. Carlisle called Jack Tar: A Sailor's Life, 1750-1910 (1999).

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This folder contains various items related to treasure coins and includes a copy of an auction booklet, a copy of a numismatist magazine, an article from New Yorker magazine, and other articles of research.

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Photocopies of several nautical maps concerning the St. George Reef lighthouse area.

Scope and Contents The first item in this folder is a printed excerpt from a book published by Antiquarian Press, Ltd. (New York) in 1961 called Marine History of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Review of the Growth and Development of the Maritime Industry, from the Advent of the Earliest Navigators to the Present Time, with Sketches and Portraits of a Number of Well Known Marine Men edited by E. W. Wright. The second item is a printed photocopy of an article from volume 24 of National Geographic called...

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The excerpt is from a book entitled Master of the Moving Sea: The Life of Captain Peter John Riber Mathieson From His Anecdotes, Manuscripts, Notes, Stories, and Detailed Records by Gladys M. O. Gowlland (1959).

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The revised proposal concerns an early iteration of Powers' "Taking the Sea" for Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Inc. dated 8-1-06. At this time, the working title was "Master Wrecker: The Adventurous World of Captain Whitelaw." Included are some pictures from Whitelaw's era with captions.

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The text titled "Master Wrecker: The Adventurous World of Captain Whitelaw" contains undated sample chapters from an early draft iteration of Powers' "Taking the Sea."

Scope and Contents These materials include various reproduction request forms and permission of use forms (largely for photographs), as well as several letters of correspondence between Powers and the various institutions from whom he was requesting materials, as well as the editors and publishers of his books. Also included are reproductions of the multiple photographs and documents from said institutions, some of which date back to the nineteenth century. Most of these materials are related to shipbuilding...

Scope and Contents These materials include various reproduction request forms and permission of use forms (largely for photographs), as well as several letters of correspondence between Powers and the various institutions from whom he was requesting materials, as well as the editors and publishers of his books. Also included are reproductions of the multiple photographs and documents from said institutions, some of which date back to the nineteenth century. Most of these materials are related to shipbuilding...