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Narrative of voyage around the world out of New York between 1928 and 1931 on the 33-foot ketch "Svaap."

Published to accompany an exhibit at Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archeology and History displayed in 2000. The exhibit details the Siege of Quebec and includes information on the Elizabeth and Mary shipwreck, which was discovered in 1994.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, 14th April to 2nd October 1976

"1812: A Guide to the War and Its Legacy" is organized into two parts. First, an historical section that seeks to place events in their strategic, operational, and human context. Second, there is a tour section that is designed to introduce and guide readers to the sites of war and memory that may be visted today" -- back cover

"Published to mark the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, [this book] brings together places in the United States and Canada that are connected with the war. These include towns, battle sites, forts, navy yards, cemeteries, and the historic trails of the British and U.S. troops as they marched to battle. Developed with the help of Parks Canada, the U.S. National Park Service, the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership, and staff at each of the sites, this guide relates the many struggles of both sides, honors the men who fought, and details the many ways in which the sites commemorate the history today, with living history displays and reenactments"--Page 8.

"Published to mark the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, [this book] brings together places in the United States and Canada that are connected with the war. These include towns, battle sites, forts, navy yards, cemeteries, and the historic trails of the British and U.S. troops as they marched to battle. Developed with the help of Parks Canada, the U.S. National Park Service, the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership, and staff at each of the sites, this guide relates the many struggles of both sides, honors the men who fought, and details the many ways in which the sites commemorate the history today, with living history displays and reenactments"--Page 8.

"Here are the stories of commanding generals such as America's Henry "Granny" Dearborn, double-dealing James Wilkinson, and feisty Andrew Jackson, as well as Great Britain's gallant Sir Isaac Brock, overly cautious Sir George Prevost, and Rear Admiral George Cockburn, the man who put the torch to Washington. Here too are those inadvertently caught up in the war, from heroine farm wife Laura Secord, whom some call Canada's Paul Revere, to country doctor William Beanes, whose capture set the stage for Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner."" "1812: The War That Forged a Nation presents a sweeping narrative that emphasizes the struggle's importance to America's coming-of-age as a nation. Though frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 did indeed span half a continent - from Mackinac Island to New Orleans and Lake Champlain to Horseshoe Bend - and it paved the way for the conquest of the other half."--Jacket.

"In 1992, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum ... executed a survey between the Larrabee's Point ferry crossing and Chipman's Point. The survey was motivated, in part, by recent events which have raised concern for the management, protection and preservation of submerged cultural resources in Lake Champlain. ... The survey was a demonstration project to show how modern remote sensing technology could be utilized to inventory cultural resources ..."--Page 1

Catalog for the year(s) 1992-1993.

Catalog from the year 2000.

"Here is a history of the Hudson-Champlain Valley, a borderland between Albany, New York, and Montreal, Canada, which Britain and France struggled to control from 1660 to 1760. This was the era of the much-neglected colonial wars, a series of conflicts in which the European powers sought to dominate the eastern part of North America. Corbett brings to life borderland conditions, which ignored formal European military objectives and emphasized peaceful interaction between the combatants, from the creation of villages to the exchange of captives and slaves. Instead of completely focusing on battles, Corbett finds locations along this corridor where Native Americans and Europeans regularly came into contact, where despite competition, no group dominated..." - OCLC

Published in 1936 or 1937. CONTENTS: Seamanship and navigation -- Trinity House, origin and function -- Distance tables -- Commercial bunkering and fueling stations of the world -- Flags -- Signals and communications at sea -- Origin and development of ships -- Ship construction -- The birth of a ship -- Parts of a ship -- Engine room and machinery -- Tonnage -- Ship's papers -- Stores in an Atlantic liner -- Classes of ships -- Sailing ships -- Yachts and yachting -- Fishing boats and the fishing industry -- Royal national life-boat institution -- Some well-known ship canals -- World's greatest seaports -- Various kinds of docks -- Outstanding dates connected with shipping -- Speeds of ships throughout the ages -- The British merchant navy -- Merchant navy officers and their duties -- British merchant navy uniforms -- His majesty's customs, excise and coastguard -- Number of merchant ship built in Great Britain and other countries during this century -- Merchant fleets of the principal maritime powers -- Tonnage of various merchant fleets in 1914 and 1934 -- Merchant ships of the world above 30,000 tons -- Largest merchant ships owned by maritime countries -- Fastest vessels owned by various countries -- Oil tankers owned by principle maritime powers -- World records -- Some hints for recognition of liners -- Some systems of nomenclature adopted by shipping companies -- Illustrations of some well-known merchant vessels of all nations with leading details -- SOme well-known shipping companies (with their fleets and services) -- Flags and funnels of British and foreign companies in colour -- The Royal Navy, imperial communications and sea power -- Royal marines and Naval reserves -- Naval ranks and ratings and their duties -- Naval uniforms -- Naval traditions and customs -- Ships' badges and naval heraldry -- Types of warships and their functions -- British naval weapons -- Royal Navy -- Representative ships of the Royal Navy -- Representative ships of the foreign navies

"The first comprehensive field guide to freshwater fishes - covers all 790 species known in the United States and Canada. More than 700 illustrations, most in color, show identifying marks. Also includes 377 distribution maps and additional drawings of key details."--Page 4 of cover

"Signposts to the past -- An alphabetical guide to the artifacts: armor, bayonets, beads, bellarmines, bells, bottles (glass liquor, glass pharmaceutical, pottery), bricks and brickwork, buckles, buttons and sleeve buttons, candlesticks and lighting accessories, ceramics (American, British, European), chamberpots, bedpans, and closestool pans, clocks and clockcases, coins, tokens, and jettons, combs, cooking vessels of iron and copper alloys, cutlery and spoons, drinking glasses and decanters, drug pots, jars, and pill tiles, firearms and gunflints, flowerpots and bell glasses, furniture hardware, window glass, hinges, horseshoes and horse furniture, locks and padlocks, nails, pins, needles, and thimbles, Chinese porcelain, finger rings, scissors, lead seals, silver, spades and hoes, Rhenish stoneware, Delft and other tiles, roofing tiles, tobacco pipes and smoking equipment, toys, and wig curlers." - OCLC

Contents: Incentives and direction -- Form and function -- Power and control -- Design -- Construction -- Ships of commerce -- Ships of war and deterrence -- Guardians of the coasts and beyond -- Craft for work and pleasure -- Fishing vessels -- The Offshore industry

Contents: Incentives and direction -- Form and function -- Power and control -- Design -- Construction -- Ships of commerce -- Ships of war and deterrence -- Guardians of the coasts and beyond -- Craft for work and pleasure -- Fishing vessels -- The Offshore industry

"A history of Schenectady during the revolution, to which is appended a contribution to the individual records of the inhabitants of the Schenectady District during that period" - title page

Contents: I. A place in time. The hand of man / Robert H. Boyle -- The value of local history / Lewis Mumford -- Letters from the American Revolution / George Washington -- The genius of the scene / Henry James -- Radio address on election eve / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- II. Lives of the people. Rolling to Hyorky from the Catskill shore / Carl Carmer -- Riverside Shakespeare / Mrs. Anne Grant -- Sketching the Hudson / Benson Lossing -- Libertymen's declaration of independence -- The duke's law, an act for regulating of slaves -- The Federalist no. 1 / Alexander Hamilton -- The north river steam boat / Robert Fulton -- Articles of peace / The Dutch and Esopus Indians -- The capture and execution of Major John André / James Thacher -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving. III. Houses and gardens. A visit to Montgomery Place / Andrew Jackson Downing -- The octagon house / Orson S. Fowler -- Taking up land in New Netherland / Cornelius van Tienhoven -- Alteration of an old house / Calvert Vaux -- The highland terrace / Nathaniel P. Willis -- Shaker chairs / Robert M. Wagan -- May 1870 / Frederic E. Church -- Livingston Houses / Clare Brandt. IV. Seasons of the traveler. Letter on the American people / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The third voyage of Master Henry Hudson / Robert Juet -- Pine orchard house / Harriet Martineau -- General Lafayette returns to America / Frederick Butler -- The Albany legislature / Captain Basil Hall -- West Point / Anthony Trollope -- Travel books / James Kirke Paulding -- The setting / Roland Van Zandt -- V. Natural histories. A bird medley / John Burroughs -- Apples / Hector St. John de Crev́ecoeur -- Fly-fishing near New York / Theodore Gordon -- June 1749 / Peter Kalm -- The Ashokan Reservoir is built / Alf Evers -- Gyspy moths and man / Daniel Smiley -- Selected letters / Cadwallader Colden -- Storing King saved! / Albert Butzel -- Of the seasons / Adriaen Van der Donck. VI. Regions of the spirit. I live in the country / Alan Devoe -- A place for regionalism? / David C. Pierce and Richard C. Wiles -- Hudson River sights / Walt Whitman -- American scenery / Thomas Cole -- The Hudson River Valley : a bioregional story / Thomas Berry.

Contents: Part one. The museum -- What is a museum? : what is required of its board members? -- Museums are accountable to whom? -- Part two. The collection -- Collections management policies -- The acquisition of objects : accessioning -- Completeness of title to acquisitions and limitations on use -- The disposal of objects : deaccessioning -- Loans : incoming and outgoing -- Unclaimed loans -- International loans -- Objects left in the temporary custody of the museum -- Objects found in the collections -- Promised gifts -- Tax considerations -- Appraisals and authentications -- Care of collections -- Insurance -- Access to the collections -- Visitor and employee safety as it relates to collections -- Appendix A. Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, adopted by the General Conference, UNESCO, and its sixteenth session, Paris, November 14, 1970 -- Appendix B. Title III of Public Law 97-446 : Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act -- Appendix C. Curation of federally owned and administered archaeological collections.

"From 1833 to 1878, the Chemung Canal served as one of the lateral canals in New York State, capitalizing on the wildly successful Erie Canal that had opened in 1825. The Chemung Canal connected the Chemung River in Elmira, New York, to Seneca Lake at Watkins Glen, New York. A navigable feeder supplied water to the canal from the Chemung River near Corning, New York. With the arrival of this waterway, local communities could access eastern markets. They sent coal, lumber, plaster, salt, and agricultural products to Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, and New York City, and received manufactured goods in return. People as well as products flowed in with the canal, including an influx of workers, mainly immigrants from Ireland. A Link in the Great Chain tells how the Chemung Canal, although it had a short life, did a great deal to change the landscape and economy of the local area as part of the great chain of canals that once criss-crossed New York State." - publisher

"The Barge Canal is as much a modernization of the Erie Canal and its branches as it is an enlargement. In 1918, when the Barge Canal was completed, travelers saw things on the new canal they had not seen on the Erie: canalized rivers, movable dams, liberal use of concrete, mechanized locks, and barges pulled by tugs or traveling under their own power. No longer were boats pulled by animals walking along a towpath. The larger vessels of the Barge Canal transported a variety of products, but grain and oil made up the bulk of the traffic on the canal in its highest traffic years in the 1950s. The stories of the many people who worked or traveled along the canal provide a colorful legacy to what today is a quiet waterway for tourists." - publisher

1949 pamphlet by Lorenzo Hagglund, who was responsible for bringing the “Philadelphia” to the surface of Lake Champlain in 1935.

"At a time when surviving one voyage across the Pacific was cause for celebration, Dampier ultimately journeyed three times around the world; his bestselling books about his experiences were a sensation, influencing generations of scientists, explorers, and writers. He was the first to deduce that winds cause currents and the first to produce wind maps across the world, surpassing even the work of Edmund Halley. He introduced the concept of the "sub-species" that Darwin later built into his theory of evolution, and his description of the breadfruit was the impetus for Captain Bligh's voyage on the Bounty. Dampier reached Australia 80 years before Cook, and he later led the first formal expedition of science and discovery there. A Pirate of Exquisite Mind restores William Dampier to his rightful place in history-one of the pioneers on whose insights our understanding of the natural world was built. " -- publisher

Lake Champlain Basin Program technical report #1