Visual Materials

Series V. Photographs (UNPROCESSED)

Description: This series consists primarily of travel, maritime, and personal photographs including vessels (both naval and passenger), portraits of Kemble, and family images. Some items are contained in albums.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1850-1990
Call number: priJHK
Creator: Kemble, John Haskell (1912-1990)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John Haskell Kemble,; Gift of Elizabeth Paine.; Purchased from Vigilante Rare Books.
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Series IV. Objects (UNPROCESSED)

Visual Materials

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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Series I. Prints

Visual Materials

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.

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

Visual Materials

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 I. Commercial

Visual Materials

This collection forms part of the John Haskell Kemble maritime collection compiled by American maritime historian John Haskell Kemble (1912-1990). The collection contains 125 artworks dating from 1828 to 1981, with subjects pertaining to and/or depicting maritime vessels, including commercial and military ships. Most are oil paintings, with some watercolors also included.

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Series II. General

Visual Materials

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Series V. Photographs (UNPROCESSED)

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