Visual Materials

Series I. Prints

Description: This series contains approximately 925 printed items pertaining to travel, shipping, and other maritime-related activities and businesses in the United States from approximately 1728 to approximately 1990, with the majority of items dating from 1880 to 1980. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed prints advertising steamship companies, general travel posters, and depictions of naval vessels.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1720-1985, bulk 1880-1980
Call number: priJHK
Creator: Kemble, John Haskell (1912-1990)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John Haskell Kemble,

Series III. Maps, charts, and calendars (UNPROCESSED)

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This series contains approximately 500 items that include printed maps, charts, and calendars that pertain to travel, shipping, and other maritime-related activities and businesses from all over the world. Materials date from approximately 1850 to approximately 1990.

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Series IV. Objects (UNPROCESSED)

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This series contains a variety of objects that pertain to travel, shipping, and other maritime-related activities and businesses from approximately 1850 to approximately 1990. The materials consist of three-dimensional items relevant to steamship companies, sailing vessels, shipping entities, passenger lines, and related businesses and publications. Railroads, hotels, museums, and other general destination-related objects are also included, many from Kemble's own travels. Examples of items include dinner china, hat bands, keys, name plates, buttons, ship models, medals, toys, and other kinds of souvenirs.

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Series II. Ephemera (UNPROCESSED)

Visual Materials

This series contains printed ephemeral items that pertain to travel, shipping, and other maritime-related activities and businesses from approximately 1850 to approximately 1990. The materials consist of advertising and promotional ephemera, illustrations, and business records relevant to steamship companies, sailing vessels, shipping entities, passenger lines, and related businesses and publications from all over the world. Railroad lines, hotels, museums, and other general destination advertising ephemera are also included, many from Kemble's own travels. The majority of these items are promotional brochures, but the collection also has trade cards, timetables, booklets, directory ads, menus, postcards, handbills, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text.

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John Haskell Kemble maritime, travel, and transportation collection

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This collection consists of approximately 1,375 printed items that form part of the John Haskell Kemble maritime collection compiled by American maritime historian John Haskell Kemble (1912-1990). The collection dates from approximately 1720 to 1990 and contains prints, ephemera, maps, charts, calendars, objects, and photographs related to maritime and land-based travel, often from Kemble's own travels. The collection is divided into five series: prints; ephemera; maps, charts, and calendars; objects; and photographs. A large portion of this collection remains unprocessed.

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Series III. Maps, charts, and calendars (UNPROCESSED)

Series IV. Objects (UNPROCESSED)

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John Haskell Kemble maritime, travel, and transportation collection

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Subseries A. Commercial