TY  - GEN
AU  - Hart,Ira
AU  - Loper,R.F.
AU  - Palmer,Alexander Smith
AU  - Palmer,Nathaniel Brown
TI  - Palmer-Loper family papers,
KW  - Bush, Frederick T.
KW  - Cook, Frederick Albert,
KW  - Crosby, John Schuyler,
KW  - Dixon, Nathan Fellows,
KW  - Fanning, Edmund,
KW  - Forbes, R. B.
KW  - Gregory, Francis H.,
KW  - Hobbs, William Herbert,
KW  - Loper, Elizabeth Dixon Palmer,
KW  - Loper, Richard Fanning,
KW  - Palmer, Louis Lambert,
KW  - Palmer, Theodore Dwight,
KW  - Pendleton, Benjamin,
KW  - Smith, Francis Hopkinson,
KW  - Stanton, Charles T.
KW  - Stanton, Joseph W.
KW  - Stanton, Thomas P.
KW  - Loper family.
KW  - Loper family
KW  - Palmer family.
KW  - Palmer family
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Procurement
KW  - Navy
KW  - A.A. Low & Bros
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Annawan (Sealing ship)
KW  - Baldwin and Spooner
KW  - Charles Adams (Ship)
KW  - G. Woodhull and Minturns
KW  - Garrick (Ship)
KW  - Hero (Sloop)
KW  - Lawrence Giles Company
KW  - Loper, Dorman, and Company
KW  - Madgie (Yacht)
KW  - Magic (Yacht)
KW  - Mary of London (Ship)
KW  - Olive Branch (Sloop)
KW  - Penguin (Schooner)
KW  - Russell & Company (Guangzhou, China)
KW  - Southerner (Ship)
KW  - Yale College (1718-1887)
KW  - Business records
KW  - Connecticut
KW  - Stonington
KW  - Clipper ships
KW  - Packets
KW  - Practice of law
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Sealing
KW  - Shipbuilding
KW  - Shipping
KW  - Ships
KW  - Ship's papers
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Spanish-American War, 1898
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - New Haven
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Whaling
KW  - Yachting
KW  - Yachts
KW  - Antarctica
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - Commerce
KW  - China
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - History
KW  - France
KW  - Italy
KW  - New Orleans (La.)
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Philippine American War, 1899-1902
KW  - Stonington (Conn.)
KW  - Census
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition of Hero logbook available; no. 17,105; Microfilm edition available; no. 18,965; Microfilm edition of Annawan logbook available; no. 18,965.1; Microfilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1977-1987
N2  - Correspondence, logs and journals, financial and business papers, ships' papers, printed material, and other papers of various members of the seafaring and merchant Palmer and Loper families of Stonington, Conn.  Includes papers of Nathanial Brown Palmer relating to his discovery in 1820 of the Antarctic subcontinent, to various whaling and sealing enterprises, to the China trade, and to mercantile and shipping interests; papers of his younger brother Alexander Smith Palmer relating chiefly to mercantile and shipping interests; and papers of R.F. Loper relating principally to shipbuilding activities, the operation of Loper, Dorman, and Company, and business contracts with the U.S. Army and Navy during the Civil War.  Subjects include local and national events, trans-Atlantic packet ship voyages, sailing vessels including clipper ships, yachts and yachting, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War in Cuba, and the Philippine American War; Includes logs or log extracts for the Annawan, Charles Adams, Garrick, Hero, Mary of London, Olive Branch, Penguin, and Southerner.  Also includes a 1776 census of Long Point, Stonington, receipts and other documents relating to the yacht Madgie (later renamed Magic), diaries of journeys to New York and New Orleans, La., by Priscilla Dixon Palmer, Elizabeth Dixon Palmer Loper's diary recording a family trip through France and Italy in 1871-1872, late 18th century sermon notes by Ira Hart, and correspondence of Louis Lambert Palmer from his years at Yale  College, New Haven, Conn., and as a businessman and lawyer in Chicago, Ill; Correspondents include Frederick T. Bush, Frederick Albert Cook, J. Schuyler Crosby, Nathan Fellows Dixon (1812-1881), Nathan Fellows Dixon (1847-1897), Edmund Fanning, R.B. Forbes, William Grant, Francis H. Gregory, William Herbert Hobbs, Elizabeth Dixon Palmer Loper, Richard F. Loper, Jr., William H. Loper, Alexander Smith Palmer, Jr., Louis Lambert Palmer, Nathaniel B. Palmer II, Priscilla Dixon Palmer, Theodore Dwight Palmer, Benjamin Pendleton, Francis H. Smith, John R. Spears, Charles T. Stanton, Joseph W. Stanton, and Thomas P. Stanton and the firms of A.A. Low & Bros., Baldwin and Spooner, G. Woodhull and Minturns, Lawrence Giles Company, and Russell & Company (Guangzhou, China)
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