Box 1
Container
Contains 16 Results:
Career related documents, 1919 - 1937
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Certificates and licenses pertaining to Northrop's career.
Dates:
1919 - 1937
Handwritten Diary "Me: With Apologies to R. Haggard", 1923 - 1924
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Bound volume. Titled "Me: With Apologies to R. Haggard." Handwritten entries, some drawings and poems. Inside back cover has 31 postage stamps from nations around the world (including Argentina, Brasil, Hong Kong, and Finland).
Dates:
1923 - 1924
Course and Distance Around the World, circa 1920s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Northrop's calculations of course and distance from port to port on route around the world (total distance 25655 nautical miles).
Dates:
circa 1920s
Diary in Log Book , 1925
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Diary entries handwritten in pages of a ship log book.
Dates:
1925
Photographs, circa 1920-1941
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Photographs from various stages in Northrop's career as a seamen and later as a pilot.
Dates:
circa 1920-1941
Typed Diary, 1925
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Content Description
From the Collection:
This collection provides an intimate picture of Cecil Northrop's life at sea in the 1920s as a cadet in traning and merchant mariner. Northrop kept extensive diaries (handwritten and typed) where he recorded his impressions of life aboard the ship, foreign ports visited, people he met on his travels, and relationships with friends, family, and love interests. It appears Northrop was compiling some of the manuscripts into essays, and viewed his writing as part of the great sea narrative...
Dates:
1925