Boston Marine Museum

The Boston Marine Museum (1909-1947) in Boston, Massachusetts, specialized in maritime history. Its collections were displayed in the Old State House in rooms borrowed from the Bostonian Society.^[1]^[2] Among the objects in the museum were figureheads; model ships; "whaling implements, ... prints and pictures;"^[3] manuscripts;^{[nb 1]}publications;^{[nb 2]} and "curios and relics of the seafaring life of New England."^[7] Leaders of the museum included John Templeman Coolidge,^[8] Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr.,^[7] and Robert B. Smith.^[9] In 1947 the museum merged into the Bostonian Society.^[10]

Notes

^ The museum owned manuscript materials such as the journal of sea captain John Suter;^[4] and the diary of Leavitt Sprague^[5]
^ The museum owned published material such as the Boston Shipping List and Price Current, 1843-1882^[6]

^ Proceedings of the Bostonian Society, Annual Meeting, 1911, hdl:2027/njp.32101076884707
^ Edwin M. Bacon (1916), Book of Boston, OL 2591948M
^ "Marine Museum and Harvard get Fearing Collections", Boston Globe, July 20, 1918
^ Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 54, 1920, hdl:2027/uc1.b3499695
^ List of Sailings from New England to San Francisco 1849-1856, Boston, 1913{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 54, 1921, hdl:2027/uc1.b3499695
^ ^a ^b Harvard Graduates' Magazine, vol. 18, 1910
^ Edward W. Forbes (June 1946), "John Templeman Coolidge: 1856-1945", Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, vol. 44, no. 256
^ David A. Wasson (January 27, 1915), "The Silent Pilots", The Outlook
^ "Marine Museum records, 1909-1948". Catalog. Bostonian Society. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13.