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Unidentified documents with wax seals, undated [2 items]

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

undated

Location Note

Box 27

GUSN

GUSN-289012

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Description

This folder, within the papers of Richard Holbrook Tucker (1816-1895), contains invoices, correspondence, and notes related to Capt. Tucker's shipbuilding experiments; copies of articles about the Surf Boat from Scientific American, 1879; Assignment of Letters Patent for Improvements on the construction and mode of propelling and steering navigable vessels (printed on large parchment, folded).

Details

Descriptive Terms

shipbuilding
invoices
correspondence
publications
patents

Collection Code

MS033

Collection Name

Tucker family papers

Reference Code

MS033.002.007.009

Acquisition Type

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Jane Standen Tucker, 1998.

Places

Wiscasset (Lincoln county, Maine)

Record Details

Originator

Tucker, Richard Holbrook, 1816-1895 (Inventor)

Material Type

invoices
correspondence
publications
patents

Description Level

File part

Location Note

Box 27

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