collections Archives - Mystic Seaport Museum https://mysticseaport.org/tag/collections/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:05:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://mysticseaport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-MSP_Logo_100_White-32x32.png collections Archives - Mystic Seaport Museum https://mysticseaport.org/tag/collections/ 32 32 Mystic Seaport Museum Receives IMLS Grant to Recover and Improve Access to its Rosenfeld Collection https://mysticseaport.org/press-release/mystic-seaport-museum-receives-imls-grant-to-recover-and-improve-access-to-its-rosenfeld-collection/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:04:25 +0000 https://mysticseaport.wpengine.com/?p=371937 Mystic, Conn. (September 13, 2022) – Mystic Seaport Museum was awarded a three-year Institute of Museum and Library Services Collections Stewardship grant totaling $236,788, to recover and improve access to selected cellulose diacetate negatives from the Museum’s Rosenfeld Collection of Maritime Photography that have been affected by a form of severe deterioration known as vinegar syndrome. The Rosenfeld Collection, […]

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]]> Letters From the Colored Sailor’s Home in the Mid 19th Century https://mysticseaport.org/news/letters-from-the-colored-sailors-home/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:26:20 +0000 https://mysticseaport.wpengine.com/?p=367185 The G.W. Blunt White Library manuscript collection at Mystic Seaport Museum recently offered up an exciting find in the form of reports and correspondence relating to the Colored Sailors’ Home(s) run by the American Seamen’s Friend Society in the mid-19th century. As the name suggests, these were boarding houses specifically for sailors of color; the […]

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