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;[4] publications;[5] and "curios and relics of the seafaring life of New England."[6] Leaders of the museum included John Templeman Coolidge,[7] Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.,[6] and Robert B. Smith.[8] In 1947 the museum merged into the Bostonian Society.[9]

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References

  1. ^ Proceedings of the Bostonian Society, Annual Meeting, 1911
  2. ^ Edwin M. Bacon (1916), The Book of Boston, Boston, Mass: Book of Boston Co., http://openlibrary.org/books/OL2591948M/The_book_of_Boston 
  3. ^ "Marine Museum and Harvard get Fearing Collections." Boston Globe, July 20, 1918
  4. ^ The museum owned manuscript materials such as the journal of sea captain John Suter (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1920); and the diary of Leavitt Sprague (List of Sailings from New England to San Francisco 1849-1856. Boston: 1913
  5. ^ The museum owned published material such as the Boston Shipping List and Price Current, 1843-1882 (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1921)
  6. ^ a b Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Volume 18, 1910
  7. ^ Edward W. Forbes. "John Templeman Coolidge: 1856-1945." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Vol. 44, No. 256 (Jun., 1946)
  8. ^ David A. Wasson. "The Silent Pilots." The Outlook, Jan. 27, 1915
  9. ^ Bostonian Society. Catalog description of "Marine Museum records, 1909-1948"