Lackawanna (Ship)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Emmons family papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1306
Overview:
The papers, consisting of the personal and official papers of George Foster Emmons and George Thornton Emmons, document the history of the United States Navy in the nineteenth century and of early ethnological research on the native peoples of Alaska. The papers contain extensive correspondence of naval officers and the Emmons's family, ship's journals and captain's letterbooks, naval orders and reports, research notes and publications on Alaska, scrapbooks, and artwork by the Emmons family.
Dates:
1821-1925
Walter Keeler Scofield papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 437
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, journals, scrapbooks, photographs and miscellanea relating to Walter Keeler Scofield's career as naval surgeon during the Civil War and his later voyages to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the West Indies.
Dates:
1859-1910
Shipping collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 543
Overview:
The collection consists of ships' journals, invoices, manifests, lists of crews, clearance papers and other documents relating to shipping, largely from Connecticut ports in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is also a small quantity of papers from Massachusetts, New York and elsewhere.
Dates:
1749-1923
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Shipping collection