Browse Exhibits (2 total)

From Sheepshead Bay to Shanghai: The Training and Travels of a Merchant Seaman in World War II

This exhibition is drawn from the Herman R. Pederson Archive in the Frank L. McGuire Maritime Library. The chronological narrative has been created from the many licenses, certificates, letters, clippings, booklets, photographs and memorabilia saved by Herman Pederson during and after his wartime experiences in the U.S. Merchant Marine.

Brian Rogers, Online Exhibits Librarian

September, 2021

American Merchant Marine, Bayonne New Jersey, Frank L. McGuire Maritime Library, hospital corpsmen, Huangpu River, Liberty ships, merchant seaman, Mesabi, Military Ocean Terminal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Noumea, Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Papeete, Portland Oregon, purser, Qingdao, S.S. Elmer A. Sperry, S.S. Segundo Ruiz-Belvis, Shanghai Bund, Sheepshead Bay Training Station, Shepard Steamship Co., Shore Convoy for Merchant Seamen, Sydney Australia, Tsingtao, U.S. Marine Hospital, U.S. Maritime Service, U.S. Maritime Service Training Station Sheepshead Bay, United Seamen's Service, Veteran status, Victory ships, Virginia Minnesota, War Shipping Administration

A Conservator's Legacy: Gene MacMullan at the McGuire Library

An examples of book and paper conservation projects carried out by Eugene C. MacMullan between 2012 and 2019 for the Frank L. McGuire Maritime Library of the New London Maritime Society.

--Brian Rogers, Online Exhibits Librarian

book conservation, clamshell boxes, Daniel New-House, Daniel Newhouse, Electric Boat Co., Eugene MacMullan, Frank L. McGuire Maritime Library, Groton Connecticut, Ingoldsby Crawford, New London, New London Maritime Society, Ocean Beach Park New London, Robert Mills, S.S. Tasco, Treasury Decisions, U.S. Custom House New London, U.S.S. Flasher, War of 1812, Whole Art of Navigation. 1701