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Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Lifesaving Benevolent Association of New York Records
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2017-017
Scope and Content
The collection consists of the records of the Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York from 1849-2008.
Records include LSBA’s acts of incorporation, charter, and by-laws. Materials also include correspondence, financial ledgers, meeting minutes, and a subscriber list. Much of the material consists of lists of LSBA award winners that document maritime rescues, as well as the amount of LSBA awards. Other records include LSBA Annual Statements, historical pamphlets, and...
Dates:
1849-2008
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Maritime Education Materials
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-009
Scope and Content
Includes materials related to SCI’s Merchant Marine School and its predecessors, the Navigational and Marine Engineering School and the Navigational School. Of particular note are registrar materials, correspondence related to the J. Hooker Hamersley and correspondence from the War years of the Navigational and Marine Engineering School, including a letter addressed to Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield from then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, thanking SCI for providing...
Dates:
1913-2003
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Missing Seamen Bureau Records
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-006
Scope and Content
Includes Missing Seamen’s files, correspondence and reports related to the Missing Seamen Bureau, founded in 1919 by Janet L. Roper and the Religious and Social Work Department to assist families and friends in locating missing seafarers. Missing Seamen’s files (1930-1978) include correspondence from people who had contacted the Institute hoping to locate a family member or loved one. Of particular note are Missing Men bulletins issued from 1920-1930 which were distributed to papers in ports...
Dates:
1920-1974
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-015
Scope and Content
Includes black and white and color photographs of people, places, and scenes documenting the history of SCI and the development of Lower Manhattan. Of particular note are photographs of the interiors and exteriors of SCI’s headquarters at 25 South Street, 15 State Street and 241 Water Street; SCI’s missionary outposts in Lower Manhattan; SCI’s chapels; Port Newark; the Merchant Marine School; the Women’s Council; art & artifacts; board members; employees; ships; seafarers; and New York...
Dates:
Various Dates
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Printed Materials
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2017-016
Scope and Contents
Includes printed material either produced or collected by the Institute.
Dates:
1818-2000
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Public Relations Records
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-012
Scope and Content
Includes materials related to SCI’s Department of Public Relations including correspondence, clippings and press releases related to the operations of the Institute. Also included are scrap books with clippings, correspondence, photographs, pamphlets and other ephemera related to SCI and the maritime community in general. Of particular note is correspondence related to SCI’s film and radio initiatives, including the promotional film “Home is the Sailor,” produced by SCI in the 1940s. Also...
Dates:
1911-1978
Seamen’s Church Institute Of New York & New Jersey Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCI-1889-001
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of seventeen boxes of scrapbooks. These scrapbooks contain bulletins, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and photographs, documenting the Seamen’s Church Institute and items related to maritime life and culture in New York City. For more information about the Seamen’s Church Institute’s scrapbooks, please see the Scope and Content notes for the individual scrapbooks.
Dates:
1889-2005
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Seamen's Files
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-007
Scope and Content
Includes various materials related to seafarers and their activities involving SCI. Included are registers, correspondence, logbooks, clippings, surveys and shipping articles. Among the various groups represented in this series are ANGYRA (International Society for the Aid of Greek Seamen); the Janet Roper Club (3 E. 67th Street), a leisure center exclusively for seafarers established by SCI in 1943; the International Club (25 South Street and 15 State Street), which catered to foreign...
Dates:
189- - 1977
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Seamen's Service Records
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-005
Scope and Content
Includes ledgers, correspondence and reports related to various departments within the Institute that provided services to seamen, including the Department of Special Services, the Alcoholics Assistance Bureau, the Credit Bureau, the Employment Bureau, the Post Office Station for Seamen and the Seamen’s Bank for Saving. Also included are materials related to ship visiting. Of particular interest is correspondence related to the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928, including direct...
Dates:
1900-1978
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Staff and Administration Records
Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-004
Scope and Content
Staff and Administration records consist of correspondence, minutes and reports related to various departments and individual staff members. Included are departmental reports from 1941-1978 and operations surveys from 1932-1960. Of particular interest is correspondence related to Janet L. Roper, who served as SCI’s House Mother from 1915-1943, founding the Missing Seamen Bureau in 1919. Also included is a manuscript copy of an unpublished biography of Roper written by Jonathan Finn, as well...
Dates:
1902-1978
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