Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Working rules
- Description
- The collection consists of business records related to the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, including circular letters to masters, reports on finances and operations, information on construction of ships, sale of ships, and the final end of service in 1953. Persons represented in the collection include: Dearborn Clark, John E. Cushing, Edward P. Farley, Lewis Abbot Lapham, Roger Dearborn Lapham, and Walter S. McPherson.
- Date
- approximately 1919
- Call number
- mssAmericanh
- Provenance
- Gift of John Kemble, December 1982. These records were selected for marine historian Dr. John Kemble by Lewis Abbot Lapham, president of the company from 1947 to 1953 and by Thomas G. Plant, operating manager from 1923 until his retirement in 1948, from among their own papers.
