John L. Lochhead Collection (1991.03)

Steamship Historical Society of America

Steamship Historical Society of America
2500 Post Road
Warwick, RI 02886
Tel: 401-463-3570
E-mail: info@sshsa.org

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Arrangement

This collection is arranged by material type in eight series.

Series 1: Scrapbooks

• This series contains approximately 210 scrapbooks compiled by Lochhead from when he was 6-7 years old in 1916 up until 1990, just a year prior to his death. The scrapbooks contain clippings, photographs, postcards, and notes dealing with maritime events and topics. The first four scrapbooks (from 1916-1918) are related to World War One.

Series 2: Travel Logs

• 16 travel logs handwritten by Lochhead and featuring accounts of his trips to Norway, Scotland, Newfoundland, England, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland from 1965-1983.

Series 3: Day Planners

• 19 miniature diaries/day planners kept by Lochhead to record meetings, events, and other items of interest on a daily basis. There is a diary for each year from 1970-1989, with the diary for 1987 missing.

Series 4: Film Negatives

• Approximately 10,500 negatives of images of ships taken by Lochhead. A card catalog index for the negatives exists and is physically stored on top of the cabinet of negatives.

Series 5: Photo Albums

• 32 photo albums featuring mainly black and white prints from Lochhead's negatives of images of ships.

Series 6: 35mm Slides

• 35mm slides featuring images taken from Lochhead's various trips aboard steamboats and steamships. The original inventory lists 44 boxes of slides, but as of the catalog date, only 3 have been located.

Series 7: Typescripts and Manuscripts

• This series comprises the typed manuscripts of research conducted by Lochhead throughout his career on steamship data and travel accounts. Typescripts include bibliographies, an index, and extracts from maritime books/records. Lochhead's professionally-bound four-volume account of his employment with Eastern Steamship Lines is a standout in this series.

Series 8: Correspondences

• This series comprises a large correspondence with Lochhead's former colleague and friend Robert H. (Bob) Burgess and miscellaneous correspondences with others.