Name/Title
"The Log of the Mystic Seaport," 1969-1987Entry/Object ID
2018.211Scope and Content
Collection of Mystic Seaport Logs, 1969-1987 - excellent resource for local maritime history:
*September 1969: EMMA C. BERRY, shipwrights tools, schooner ELVIRA BALL
*Summer 1972: USS ALBATROSS (US Civil War/naval history)
*Fall 1972: AMERICAN STAR (history of US boat racing)
*Winter 1972: Port the Helm
*Spring 1973: "Tar" and "Oakum" and the sail training associaction (female sailors), building a ship model
*Fall 1973: CHARLES W. MORGAN, shipping/sailing in the Falkland Islands
*Winter 1973: CHARLES W. MORGAN, identifying early Mystic photographs
*Spring 1974: CHARLES W. MORGAN, shipbuilding in colonial Connecticut
*Fall 1974: performance and use of whaleboats in the 1870s, USCG EAGLE
*Winter 1974: shipsmith shops, icebergs
*May 1975: J.E. Buttersworth (maritime painter), James Earl/a child's life abroad the CHARLES W. Morgan c. 1902-1907, the business of whaling (with photographs documenting the process of hauling a whale aboard and rendering blubber to oil)
*October 1976: boat building in Stonington (1700s-1965)
*October 1977: shipcarvers and figureheads
*January 1977: the discovery of Antarctica (Nathaniel Palmer), sealing and Stonington
*April 1977: HMS BEAGLE, whaling
*July 1977: New England seaports
*January 1978: ship logs and journals, whaling
*July 1978: JOSEPH CONRAD
*October 1978: whaling history and courts, nautical antiques
*February 1979: museum conservation - examination, preservation and restoration, caring for historic photographs and papers
*Summer 1979: American small craft tradition
*Fall 1979: merchant sailing craft, clipper ships, builder's half-hull models
*Spring 1980: Fresnel lighthouse lenses, early days of rowing sport, American catboats
*Summer 1980: New England steamboats
*Fall 1980: scrimshaw, woman lighthouse keepers
*Winter 1980: clipper ships, rigors of sea travel
*Spring 1981: menhaden fishery in Mystic
*Fall 1981: life at sea (photograph essay)
*Winter 1981: CHARLES W. MORGAN, Mystic river shipbuilding
*Spring 1982: US life-saving stations
*Winter 1982: JOSEPH CONRAD
*Spring 1983: New England light stations, scrimshaw
*Summer 1983: leisure activities along the Mystic/Stonington coast, 1870-1910
*Winter 1983: clipper ships
*Summer 1984: China trade, the end of neutral trade (1810 American merchant fleet), dead horse
*Winter 1984: young women in 19th century songs of the sea, the origins of the banjo at sea
*Spring 1985: photograph preservation, interpreting maritime photographs
Summer 1985: US Revolutionary Navy
*Fall 1985: Hawaii trade, sailor's souvenirs
*Spring 1986: Fulton fish market, fourth of July
*Summer 1986: the immigrant experience (photographs), cruelty to seamen, mackerel fishing
Winter 1986: colonial wharf construction, the impact of Jefferson's embargo on coastal commerce
Spring 1987: yankee entrepreneurs in the Caribbean fruit trade, navigational instruments and artistry
*Summer 1987: New London whalemen on the northwest coast, mutiny on the whaleship METEOR, moral deceny and order between women and whalemen in the Pacific
*Winter 1987: commuting by water before the war (WWI)