Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)

Naval architectural drawings for most of the vessels built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, as well as construction specifications documents for a handful of them. Includes the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Letter deals with iron ore shipping and vessel design on the Great Lakes.

The collection contains publications, correspondence, and manuscript materials both collected and written by Dr. Richard J. Wright, founder of the Center for Archival Collections.

Shipbuilding company financial record sheets noting general, operating, labor, maintenance, plant expenses, and liabilities, and earnings from stocks, shipyards, and property resources.

Vessel files, publications, reports, and other materials from an American Bureau of Shipping employee with over five decades of experience.

Cost estimate forms, correspondence, telegrams, and memoranda relating to hulls built by the Union Dry Dock Company (and Buffalo Dry Dock Company) from the 1880s to 1911.

Summary of the initial claim in a lawsuit from the federal government alleging violations of the Clayton Act after American Ship Building Company purchased the bulk carrier fleet of Litton Industries.