 | Art & Objects
The Collection represents more than 75 years of collecting and reflects the extraordinary scope and significance of America's relationship with the sea and inland waterways. |  | Books
70,000 volumes, (more than 3000 rare books), and 1,000 ships registers. |
 | Film & Video
236 collections, 1.5+ million feet of film, 5000 videotapes on square-rigged ships, storm scenes, boating, ocean passages, boat restoration, yachting, various ports and cities, boat building, whaling, and rowing. |  | Manuscripts
Ships' logs, journals, ledgers, diaries, and documents from the whaling, fishing, recreational boating and shipping industries. |
 | Maps & Charts
9000+ nautical charts and maps. |  | Periodicals
700 titles including complete collections of The Log , Rudder, Yachting, WoodenBoat, and Motor Boating . |
 | Photographs
The Photography Collection is one of the largest maritime photographic archives in North America, containing over 1,300,000 images from the 1840s to the present.  Watch our new Rosenfeld Collection video.
|  | Ships Plans
100,000+ naval architectural drawings represent a wide variety of designs, from small canoes, dories, and day sailers to yachts, barges, and naval vessels. |
 | Sound Archives
Oral history interviews, recorded lectures and events, documenting maritime activity, and the people and objects associated with that activity. |  | Watercraft
500+ vessels of all sizes from rowboats to kayaks, from schooners to ships. |
