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Home | Museum: Our Collections: Maritime Careers and Connections

Maritime Careers and Connections

Highlights from the Collection:
  • Captain’s shipping papers, logs, letters, journals
  • Research on Cargo, Vessel, Captain, and License research resources
  • Navigational tools and charts
  • Captains’ portraits and navigational tools and maritime art
  • Ship portraits and maritme scenes
  • Ship flags including a rare set of Marryat Code flags
  • Ship’s medicine chest – from rescued ship Garland, mid
    19th c.
  • Sea Bed, ca. 1820, brought from China
  • Items purchased abroad, including garments of imported textiles
  • Records (e.g., account books) of local products raised for export
  • Merchants' records
SHIP'S MEDICINE CHEST,
1850s
WILLIAM CHAMPERLAIN CLIPPER SHIP,
BY CAPTAIN ISAAC JENNINGS, 1855
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