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1	Title:	Franklin Jeremiah Drake Papers
	Creator:	Drake, Franklin Jeremiah
	Dates:	1890-1929
	Abstract:	Franklin Jeremiah Drake (1846-1929) was a United States naval officer who served fifty-two years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a rear admiral. He engineered the first survey of the Isthmus of Panama for the Panama Canal in 1896 and assisted in charting the Bering Sea after the U.S. acquired Alaska from Russia. At one time he served on the U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides". The collection consists of biographical sketch, correspondence, certificates of membership in various organizations, a speech given at a G.A.R meeting, notes from a cruise of the Pacific Ocean, including a journal kept by Mrs. Drake, some military papers, newspaper clippings, and some diplomas of Nellie Pierson, whose connection to Drake has not been established.
	Call #:	MS 4397
	Extent:	0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Drake, Franklin Jeremiah, 1846-1929. \| United States. Navy -- Biography. \| Ocean travel
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2	Title:	Dudley Baldwin Account Book
	Creator:	Baldwin, Dudley
	Dates:	1844-1845
	Abstract:	The collection consists of Dudley Baldwin's accounts with P.M. Weddell & Company and Baldwin & Spangler of Cleveland, Ohio, and four pages of diary-like entries made during a voyage from San Francisco to New York on the Golden Eagle.
	Call #:	MS 2708
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Baldwin, Dudley. \| Golden Eagle (Ship) \| Ocean travel \| Voyages and travels.
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3	Title:	F. Missler Records
	Creator:	F. Missler
	Dates:	1898-1940
	Abstract:	F. Missler was a passenger agent operating out of Bremen, Germany and Budapest, Hungary. He arranged travel and transferred funds to America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The collection consists of papers relating to travel arrangements, including correspondence and passports for several families. The collection is useful to those interested in travel on ocean liners during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also pertains to Hungarian immigration.
	Call #:	MS 4420
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Missler, F. \| Ocean travel \| Hungarians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hungary -- Emigration and immigration. \| United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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4	Title:	George H. Swain Daybooks
	Creator:	Swain, George H.
	Dates:	1856-1859
	Abstract:	George H. Swain was a resident of Nantucket, Massachusetts, who was probably a crew member on the ships listed. Volumes include remarks recorded while on board the Lexington (on the Pacific and Indian Oceans), the schooner Secreto, and the bark United States, all of which were whaling vessels.
	Call #:	MS 0456
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Lexington (Ship) \| Secreto (Ship) \| United States (Ship) \| Logbooks. \| Ship's papers. \| Whalers (Persons) -- United States -- Diaries. \| Whaling ships -- United States. \| Voyages and travels. \| Ocean travel
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