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Stephan Gmelin Photograph Collection (2004.03)

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

Scope & content

The Stephan Gmelin Collection contains approximately 2,000 black and white and color negatives of ships and SSHSA meetings, along with several 8mm and one 16 mm film on various maritime themes. Most of the images are of cargo ships, with some ocean liners and passenger excursion ships/boats. Some of the negatives were produced by Gmelin's brother, Alexander Gmelin. The images in this collection were taken between 1921-1989.