Boston Marine Museum

The Boston Marine Museum (1909-1947) in Boston, Massachusetts, specialized in maritime history. Its collections were displayed in the Old State House in rooms borrowed from the Bostonian Society.[1][2] Among the objects in the museum were figureheads; model ships; "whaling implements, ... prints and pictures;"[3] manuscripts;[nb 1]publications;[nb 2] and "curios and relics of the seafaring life of New England."[7] Leaders of the museum included John Templeman Coolidge,[8] Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.,[7] and Robert B. Smith.[9] In 1947 the museum merged into the Bostonian Society.[10]

Boston Marine Museum, ca.1910s

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Notes
  1. The museum owned manuscript materials such as the journal of sea captain John Suter;[4] and the diary of Leavitt Sprague[5]
  2. The museum owned published material such as the Boston Shipping List and Price Current, 1843-1882[6]

References
  1. Proceedings of the Bostonian Society, Annual Meeting, 1911, hdl:2027/njp.32101076884707
  2. Edwin M. Bacon (1916), Book of Boston, OL 2591948M
  3. "Marine Museum and Harvard get Fearing Collections", Boston Globe, July 20, 1918
  4. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 54, 1920, hdl:2027/uc1.b3499695
  5. List of Sailings from New England to San Francisco 1849-1856, Boston, 1913
  6. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 54, 1921, hdl:2027/uc1.b3499695
  7. Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 18, 1910
  8. Edward W. Forbes (June 1946), "John Templeman Coolidge: 1856-1945", Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, 44 (256)
  9. David A. Wasson (January 27, 1915), "The Silent Pilots", The Outlook
  10. "Marine Museum records, 1909-1948". Catalog. Bostonian Society. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13.
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