The Kittredge Maritime Collections include personal and research materials collected and used by Henry Crocker Kittredge, former Headmaster of St. Paul’s School, author, and longtime resident of Barnstable. This collection contains more than 3,000 books, journals, and an archive of Cape Cod manuscripts, documents, personal papers and letters. Kittredge’s annotated index of 2,500 Cape Cod shipmasters and their vessels is a unique and invaluable resource for maritime historians. Many of the books in this collection circulate and are available for borrowing through interlibrary loan.
Kittredge Maritime Collections
Associated Finding Aids
- MS. 1: Henry Crocker Kittredge Maritime Collection
- MS. 3: Captain Joseph Lincoln Papers
- MS. 4: William Rotch Papers
- MS. 5: Captain Nehemiah Smith Collection
- MS. 6: Schooner Colin C. Baker Papers
- MS. 25: Abner and Abigail Hopkins Family Correspondence
- MS. 51: Daniel C. Bacon [Biography]
- MS. 70: Collection of Ships Logs, Journals, Pier Company’s Ledgers, and Correspondence
- MS. 94: Kittredge Maritime Research Center Collection
- MS. 108: Kittredge Maritime Research Center Collection, 1967-1996