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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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. …