From collection Henry Hall Papers
Henry Hall's "Ship Building in the United States"
One of two bound manuscript volumes of Hall's handwritten notes documenting the shipbuilding industry. Volume I: "Shipbuilding in the United States," is nearly five hundred pages chronicling boat builders and shipyards across the country with detailed descriptions and sketches. Table of contents available in library. Archival: notebook, "Ship Building in the United States" Notebook (#1 of 2) (MS 408), "Shipbuilding in the United States". Compiled by Henry Hall while collecting material for his report on the shipbuilding industry of the United States. 506 pages, partially filled. Also, there are some miscellaneous papers found loose in the notebooks. No record of these notebooks being accessioned when they were donated. See American Neptune, January 1941, p. 87. Old number 81.34
