R e s o u r c e s  &  R e f e r e n c e s

Following is the beginning of an "inventory" list of maritime resources (products, publications, collections, people) - based solely on materials provided as examples by "gathering" participants during the work sessions. This is an extremely limited list, but is intended to serve as a "seed" for submission of other resources to be included in this web-based inventory.

We encourage everyone to submit resources for inclusion. Please submit to Gail Vander Stoep. Digital lists are preferred.

Folklife and Folklore | Research Reports | Publications
Curricula and Teaching Aids | Collections | Music

Folklife and Folklore

Kozma, LuAnne G., Gilmore, Janet C., and Martine, Jay C. 1994. Marlinespikes and Monkey's Fists: Traditional Arts and Knot-Tying Skills of Maritime Workers. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Michigan Traditional Arts Programs.

Kozma, LuAnne G. and Borden, Cassie. 1995 (rev. 2000). Marlinespikes and Monkey's Fists: Traditional Arts and Knot-Tying Skills of Maritime Workers-Teacher's Guide. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Michigan Traditional Arts Programs.

Sommers, Laurie K. 1996. Beaver Island House Party (book + CD). East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.

Leary, James P. 1998. Wisconsin Folklore (compiled and annotated). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Gilmore, Janet C. 1986. The World of the Oregon Fishboat: A Study in Maritime Folklife. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press.

Michigan Folklife Festival ' National Folk Festival ' Great Lakes Folk Festival (Lansing, MI).

Research Reports

Tolson, Hawk. 2000. Survey of Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Attractions: 1998, A Final Report. CMURM Technical Report No. 2000-02. Laingsburg, MI: Center for Maritime & Underwater Resource Management.

Publications

Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (Wayne State University Press, 2002). A wonderful resource for people interested in Great Lakes maritime traditions! It features the life's work of the late Great Lakes folklorist and University of Michigan professor Ivan H. Walton and was compiled from material collected in Walton's lifetime and now in the Walton Collection of the Michigan Historical Collections at U-M's Bentley Historical Library by Joe Grimm, recruiting-development director for the Detroit Free Press. Artwork by Loudon G. Wilson, a Walton collaborator whose artwork is drawn from the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes (Bowling Green, OH) and a CD of songs from the book.

Curricula and Teaching Aids

Education Package:
Book - Maritime Heritage Education Resource Guide (GLKKA)
CD - Keepers of Tomorrow: Best of Sweetwater Journey (GLKKA)

GLLKA. 1989. Instructions to Light-Keepers (reproduction of the 1902 Edition of Instructions to Light-Keepers and Masters of Light-House Vessels). Allen Park, MI: Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association

_______. 1999. The Great Lakes Education Program: Educator's Handbook. East Lansing, MI: Michigan Sea Grant College Program/Michigan State University Extension.

Collections

Michigan State Archives

Historical Collections of the Great Lakes - Bowling Green State University, Special Collections

• Books, pamphlets, periodicals
• Some "finding aids" available on website
• Reference works: merchant vessels of US
  Insurance registers (underwriters, e.g., Lloyds of London)
• Ship-building drawings (approx. 250,000) - uncatalogued - American Shipbuilder Co. & predecessors (since late 1860s; 13 companies merged to become part of ASC)
• Great Lakes Engineering Works part of collection, with ASC collection
• DeFoe Shipbuilding Collection (Bay City) - out of business 1956
• Documentation re: merging of companies
• Labor issues
• Lake Carriers' Asso. (1880 was Cleveland Vessel Owners Asso.), from 1890s
• Photograph collection (90,000 vessel images + 40,000 Great Lakes ports, etc.) - organized by original name of vessel
• On-line database of vessels (only ~ 6,000)
• Newspaper clippings - Duluth, Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo, etc. (600 3-ring binders) 1880s - 1960s; purely chronological (no other indexing)
• International Shipmasters' Asso. Collection (from 1890s): Canadian and US members
• Lowden Wilson Collection : sail era (esp. construction details, drawings)
• Frederickson Collection (log books from Point Betsie)
• Working on on-line people database
• Port photos on-line (selected): e.g., Hewlitt unloaders, etc.

Isaac Walton Collection

Burton Collection

Music
Varied folk song music CDs

• Dan Hall: 1000-foot Keel
• Lee Murdock: Voices Across the Water
• Donn Werling: