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Feb 4, 2019

Profanity, Smells, and Snoring: Roommates at Sailors’ Snug Harbor

By Heidi Rempel, Digital Project Archivist We the undersigned urgently request relief from what to us is an unendurable evil. On November 4, 1873, four of the Old Snugs signed a petition about their fellow roommate, one Robert Adamson. This poor soul apparently was responsible for snoring “so fearfully, so…

History

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Profanity, Smells, and Snoring: Roommates at Sailors’ Snug Harbor
Profanity, Smells, and Snoring: Roommates at Sailors’ Snug Harbor

Jan 29, 2019

Captain James B. Bell

By Heidi Rempel, Digital Project Archivist If I had to name one of my favorite reasons for choosing to work with historical collections, it would be that zing of excitement that I get when I connect with a person in history that I’d never heard of before I came across…

History

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Captain James B. Bell
Captain James B. Bell

Aug 22, 2018

Herman Melville, Sailors’ Snug Harbor, and John Turnbull’s “A Voyage Round the World”

By Heidi Rempel, Digital Project Archivist One of the gems of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor collection is an early nineteenth-century travelogue that belonged to Herman Melville. We know that it was part of Melville’s library because of his signature on the title page. The book also contains distinctive X-marks consistent…

Books

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Herman Melville, Sailor's Snug Harbor, and John Turnbull's "A Voyage Round the World"
Herman Melville, Sailor's Snug Harbor, and John Turnbull's "A Voyage Round the World"

Jul 18, 2018

Phylipp Dilloway: Seaman, Engineer, Professor, Author, Historian

By Trevor Polasek, Archival Intern Phylipp Dilloway is a graduate of the New York State Maritime Academy (now SUNY Maritime College), a former sailor in the Naval Reserves, an industrial engineer, a professor, and the unofficial class historian for his graduating class, October of 1946. Dilloway’s resume is quite impressive…

History

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Phylipp Dilloway: Seaman, Engineer, Professor, Author, Historian
Phylipp Dilloway: Seaman, Engineer, Professor, Author, Historian

Apr 5, 2018

Skylarking and Lucky Bags: Processing the Early Institutional Records of SUNY Maritime College

by Jannette D’Esposito, Project Archivist When I was hired as a consultant archivist by SUNY Maritime College to arrange and describe the college’s early institutional records, I was eager to see what historical treasures I would discover. For many people digging through boxes of old administrative documents might sound boring…

History

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Skylarking and Lucky Bags: Processing the Early Institutional Records of SUNY Maritime College
Skylarking and Lucky Bags: Processing the Early Institutional Records of SUNY Maritime College

Jan 24, 2018

Records of a School at Sea

by Annie Tummino, Interim Library Director and Archivist One of my favorite things about working as the SUNY Maritime College Archivist is that our institutional records are incredibly unique. For the first 64 years of the school’s existence, from 1874 until the establishment of a campus at historic Fort Schuyler…

Education

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Records of a School at Sea
Records of a School at Sea

Dec 20, 2017

Library Receives National Endowment for Humanities Preservation Grant for Smaller Institutions

by Annie Tummino, Archivist & Interim Library Director The library was recently awarded a $6,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities, one of 76 Preservation Grants for Smaller Institutions awarded by the NEH this year. As summarized in the application: The Stephen B. Luce Library holds the records of…

From The Archives

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Library Receives National Endowment for Humanities Preservation Grant for Smaller Institutions
Library Receives National Endowment for Humanities Preservation Grant for Smaller Institutions

Published in Maritime and Naval Studies

·Dec 9, 2017

The Early Governors of Sailors’ Snug Harbor

The Stephen B. Luce Library serves as a repository of the records of Sailors’ Snug Harbor, America’s first home for retired seaman and one of the country’s oldest secular philanthropic institutions. …

History

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Oct 25, 2017

New site for Maritime Archives

by Annie Tummino, Archivist & Scholarly Communications Librarian The Stephen B. Luce Library of SUNY Maritime College has a longstanding commitment to preserving America’s maritime heritage. As the first maritime school in the country, founded in 1874, the college’s institutional records document the development of nautical education in the United…

Archive

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New site for Maritime Archives
New site for Maritime Archives

Aug 7, 2017

Maritime College library receives $50,000 grant

SUNY Maritime College’s Stephen B. Luce Library has been awarded $50,000 from the National Park Service and the U.S. Maritime Administration to continue efforts to digitize records documenting the history of Sailors’ Snug Harbor on Staten Island, New York, and the lives of thousands of retired sailors who lived there. …

Libraries

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Maritime College library receives $50,000 grant
Maritime College library receives $50,000 grant
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