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RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCESList of all National Register BulletinsNational Maritime Heritage ProgramPublished SourcesThese are provided as an indication of the variety of source materials available as wellas certain highly recommended works which will aid researchers. This listing is not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography. Adkins, Jan, Wooden Ship: The Building of a Wooden
Sailing Vessel in 1870. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1978)
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939) ________ , Naval and Maritime History: An Annotated Bibliography. (Mystic, Connecticut: The Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1972) ________ , William A. Baker, Benjamin W. Labaree, and Marion V. Brewington, New England and the Sea. (Mystic, Connecticut: The Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1972) "The American Clyde," The Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LVI (335), 1878: 641-653. Baker, William Avery, The New Mayflower: Her Design and Construction. (Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Gazette, 1958) ________ , Colonial Vessels. (Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishing Company, Inc., 1962) ________ , The Engine Powered Vessel. (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1965) ________ , Sloops and Shallots. (Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishing Company, Inc., 1966) ________ , A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region. (Bath, Maine: Marine Research Society of Bath, 1973) 2 volumes. ________, Maine Shipbuilding: A Bibliographic Guide. (Portland, Maine: The Maine Historical Society, 1974) Bankston, J., An Introductory Bibliography of Maritime References for the New World and the Spanish Empire Therein, 1492-1821. (Bisbee, Arizona: The Press, 1986) Brewington, Marion V., Chesapeake Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History. (Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1953) Brouwer, Norman J., International Register of Historic Ships. (Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute Press, 1985) "The Building of the Ship," The Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXIV (143), 1862: 608-620. Butowsky, Harry A., Warships Associated with World War II in the Pacific: National Historic Landmark Theme Study. (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1985) Carrell, Toni, Shipwrecks of Isle Royale National Park Thematic Group Nomination (Santa Fe: National Park Service, 1983). Chapelle, Howard I., The History of American Sailing Ships. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1935) ________ , The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1949) ________ , American Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development, and Construction. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1951) ________ , The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1967) ________ , The American Fishing Schooners, 1825-1935. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1973) ________ , The National Watercraft Collection. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 219. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1960.) Colleta, Paolo E., A Bibliography of American Naval History. (Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute Press, 1971) Cutler, Carl, Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship. (Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval In-stitute, 1967) Reprint of 1930 edition. Davis Charles G., American Sail-ing Ships: Their Plans and History. (New York: Dover Books, 1984) Reprint of 1929 edition. Delgado, James P., The Maritime Connotations of the California Gold Rush: National Historic Landmark Theme Study. (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1986) Desmond, Charles, Wooden Ship-building. (New York: Vestal Press, 1984) Reprint of 1919 edition. Estep, H. Cole, How Wooden Ships are Built: A Practical Treatise on Modern American Wooden Ship Construction with a Supplement on Laying Off Wooden Vessels. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1983) Reprint of 1918 edition. Fairburn, William Armstrong, Merchant Sail. (Center Lovell, Maine: Fairburn Marine Educational Foun-dation, Inc., 1955) 6 volumes. Flexner, James Thomas, Steamboats Come True: Ameican Inventors in Action. (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1978) Goldenberg, Joseph A., Ship-building in Colonial America. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1976) Greenhill, Basil, Archaeology of the Boat: A New Introductory Study. (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1976) Gould, Richard A., ed., Shipwreck Anthropology. (Albuquerque: Uni-versity of New Mexico Press, 1983) Haas, Irvin, America's Historic Ships: Replicas and Restorations. (New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc., 1975) Hall, Henry, Report on the Ship-Building Industry of the United States. (Special report in the Tenth Census of the United States) (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880) Haviland, E.K., "Classification Society Registers from the Point of View of a Maritime Historian," American Neptune, XXI (1), 1970: 9-39. Heyl, Eric, Early American Steamers. (Buffalo, New York: Author, 1953-1956) 6 volumes. Holdcamper, Forrest R., "Registers, Enrollments and Licenses in the National Archives," American Neptune, 1 (3), 1941: 275-294. ________ , Biography of the List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, XXIV (2), 1964: 119-123. ________ , List of American-Flag Merchant Vessels That Received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867. (Washington, D.C.: The National Archives, 1968) 2 volumes. Howe, Octavius T. and Frederick C., American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858. (Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1926 and 1927) 2 volumes. Johnston, Paul F., ed., Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Confer-ence on Underwater Archeology. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Society for Historical Archeology, 1985) Johnstone, Paul, The Archaeology of Ships. (New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1974) Kernble, John Haskell, The Panama Route, 1848-1869. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943) ________ , San Francisco Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History. (Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1957) Kemp, Peter, ed., The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. (London: Oxford University Press, 1976) Kerchove, Rene de, International Maritime Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Useful Terms and Phrases, Together with Equivalents in French and German. (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1961) Levingston, Steven E., Historic Ships of San Francisco: A Collective Guide to the Restored Historic Vessels of the National Maritime Museum. (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984) Lubbock, Basil, The Down Easters, American Deep Water Sailing Ships, 1869-1929. (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1929) ________ , The Last of the Windjammers. (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1927) 2 volumes. McGregor, David R., Clipper Ships. (Watford, Herts, England: Argus Books, Ltd., 1979) ________ , Merchant Sailing Ships, 1775-1815. (Watford, Herts, England: Argus Books, Ltd., 1980) ________ ,Schooners in Four Centuries. (Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute Press, 1982) ________ , Merchant Sailing Ships, 1815-1850. (Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute Press, 1984) ________ , Merchant Sailing Ships, 1850-1875. (Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute Press, 1984) McKelvey, William J., Champlain to Chesapeake: A Canal Era Pictorial Cruise (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Canal Captain's Press, 1986) MacMullen, Jerry, Paddle-Wheel Days in California. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1944) ________ , and Jack McNairn, Ships of the Redwood Coast. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1945) Matthews, Frederick C., American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900: Series 1. (Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1931) Morrell, Robert W., Oil Tankers. (New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1931) Morris, Paul C., American Sailing Coasters of the North Atlantic. (New York: Bonanza Books, 1979) Morrison, Samuel Eliot, The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949) Muckelroy, Keith, Maritime Archaeology. (Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 1978) Murphy, Larry, and Allen R. Saltus, Phase II Identification and Evaluation of Submerged Cultural Resources in the Tombigbee River Multi-Resource District, Alabama and Mississippi. (Mobile: University of Alabama, 1981) National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian Collection of Warship Plans: A Catalog of Warship Plans, Ordnance Drawings, and Ship Model Photographs Available from the Division of Naval History, National Museum of American History. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1982) Purdy, T.C., Report on Steam Navigation in the United States. (Special Report in the Tenth Census of the United States) (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880) Ridgely-Nevitt, Cedric, American Steamships on the Atlantic. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981) Robinson, Bill, The Great American Yacht Designers. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974) Sawyer, L.A., and W.H. Mitchell, The Liberty Ships: The History of the "Emergency" Type Cargo Ships Constructed in the United States During the Second World War. (London: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd., 1985) Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Historical Transactions, 1893-1945. (New York: SNME, 1945) Stanford, Peter, The Ships That Brought Us So Far. (New York: National Maritime Historical Society, 1971) ________ , "Take Good Care of Her, Mister." (New York: National Maritime Historical Society, 1974). Still, William N., Jr., Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985) Underhill, Harold A., Deep-Water Sail. (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1952) Watts, Gordon P., "Towards Establishing Research and Significance Criteria for Civil War Shipwrecks," in Paul F. Johnston, ed., Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference on Underwater Archeology. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Society for Historical Archeology, 1985) Way, Frederick, Jr., Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1893. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1983) ________ , Way's Directory of Western Rivers' Towboats. (Privately printed by Frederick Way, Jr., 121 River Avenue, Sewickley, Pennsylvania 15143) Wilde-Ransing, Mark, "National Register Districts as a Management Tool for Underwater Resources," in Paul F. Johnston, ed., Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference on Historic Archeology. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Society for Historical Archeology, 1985) JournalsAmerican Neptune
Inland Seas International Journal of Nautical Archaeology The Log of Mystic Seaport Sea History Seaport Steamboat Bill Waterways Journal CollectionsThis is a representative sam-pling of major maritime collections in the United States with a general indication of source materials available. Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine-Library,
reference files, ship plans, manuscripts, photographs.
Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia-Library, reference files, manuscripts, photographs. Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut-Library, manuscripts, photographs. National Archives, Washington, D. C. -Manuscripts including registry enrollment and licensing documents, crew lists, reports of maritime disasters, inspections, Naval records. National Maritime Historical Society, Croton-on-Hudson, New York updates Brouwer, International Register of Ships, publishes in Sea History. National Maritime Museum, San Francisco-Library, reference files, manuscripts, ship plans, photographs. Navy Historical Center, Washington, D.C.-Library, biographical files on Naval officers, ship histories, photographs, ship plans. Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachussets- Library, reference files, manuscripts, ship plans, photographs. Riverboat Photograph Collection, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. South Street Seaport, New York-Library, reference files, photographs. Steamship Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland-Library, reference files, ship plans, photographs. The Council of American Maritime MuseumsCALVERT MARINE MUSEUM
P.O. Box 97 Solomons, Maryland 20688 THE CANAL MUSEUM 318 Erie Blvd., East Syracuse, New York 13202 CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM St. Michaels, Maryland 21663 COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM Astoria, Oregon 97103 EAST HAMPTON TOWN MARINE MUSEUM Bluff Road, P.O. Box 858 Amagansett, New York 11930 FLAGSHIP NIAGARA P.O. Box 1026 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY 480 Main Street Vermilion, Ohio 44089 HUDSON RIVER MARITIME CENTER One Roundout Landing Kingston, New York 12401 THE KENDALL WHALING MUSEUM P.O. Box 297 Sharon, Massachusetts 02067 MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM 963 Washington Street Bath, Maine 04530 MANITOWOC MARITIME MUSEUM 809 South 8th Street Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 THE MARINERS' MUSEUM Newport News, Virginia 23606 M.I.T. MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL COLLECTION Hart Nautical Collection 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 MARITIME MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO 1306 North Harbor Drive San Diego, California 92101 MARITIME MUSEUM OF THE ATLANTIC 1675 Lower Water Street Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J IS3 CANADA MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM Mystic, Connecticut 06355 NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 1016 Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554 NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park National Park Service Ft. Mason, Bldg. 201 San Francisco, California 94123 NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM 315 Front Street Beaufort, North Carolina 28516 OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY WHALING MUSEUM 18 Johnny Cake Hill New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740 PEABODY MUSEUM OF SALEM East India Marine Hall Salem, Massachusetts 01970 PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM Searsport, Maine 04974 PHILADELPHIA MARITIME MUSEUM 321 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 RADCLIFFE MARITIME MUSEUM The Maryland Historical Societyv 210 West Monument Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 SAG HARBOR WHALING AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM P.O. Box 1327 Sag Harbor, New York 11796 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Curator of Naval History National Museum of American History Washington, D.C. 20560 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Curator of Maritime History National Museum of American History Washington, D.C. 20560 SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM 207 Front Street New York, New York 10038 SUFFOLK MARINE MUSEUM Montauk Highway West Sayville, New York 11796 THOUSAND ISLANDS SHIPYARD MUSEUM 750 Mary Street Clayton, New York 13624 U.S. COAST GUARD MUSEUM U.S. Coast Guard Academy New London, Connecticut 06320 U.S. FRIGATE CONSTELLATION Constellation Dock Baltimore, Maryland 21202 U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY MUSEUM Annapolis, Maryland 21402 U.S. NAVY MEMORIAL MUSEUM Bldg. 76, Washington Navy Yard Washington, D.C. 20390 U.S.S. CONSTITUTION MUSEUM FOUNDATION Boston Naval Shipyard Boston, Massachusetts 02129 VANCOUVER MARITIME MUSEUM 1905 Ogden Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3J9 CANADA WHALING MUSEUM SOCIETY Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724 |
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