Box 3

Scope and Contents

This Admissions Book is a duplicate of the 2 other Admissions Books that cover these years (located in Boxes 1 and 2). This duplicate was made in order to avoid anything happening to the original books while the schoolship was at sea. The original admissions books were kept with the Board of Governors during the cruises.

Contents of Collection This collection includes several different types of registers kept by the administrators of the New York Nautical School (now SUNY Maritime College) in the early years of the institution. The Admissions Registers contain information regarding all the students who were admitted to the school between 1875 through 1944. The information that can be found in these volumes include names of students, dates of admission, ages, students’ place of birth, birth dates, as well as the height, weight and...