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![]() | 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 3,000 rare books), and 1,000 ships' registers. |
![]() | Film & Video 236 collections, 1.5+ million feet of film, 5,000 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 | ![]() | 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. |











