Box 2
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Cecil Northrop Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AP-0024
Content Description
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:
1919 - 1941
Found in:
Stephen B. Luce Library
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Cecil Northrop Papers
Chart Catalogue, circa 1920s
File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents
Distances between ports (i.e. Boston to Panama Canal, Panama Canal to Japan, etc.). Handwritten.
Dates:
circa 1920s
Eight Bells Yearbook, 1922
File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents
Yearbook of the New York State Nautical School (now SUNY Maritime College). In addition to his portrait, Northrop is pictured on in "Staff of Editors" page (name is misspelled Northrup).
Dates:
1922
Handwritten Diary: "About Me, Nearly Everything", 1922
File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents
Bound handwritten diary titled "About Me, Nearly Everything." First entry February 1, 1922. Last entry December 31, 1922.
Dates:
1922