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South Street Seaport Museum

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Institutional Archives

Institutional Archives

The Museum’s institutional archives is the institutional memory of the Museum. They include Museum’s publications and newsletter, printed ephemera, certificates, awards, photographs and slides, oral history recordings and films, and important correspondences tied to the Museum’s history, collection, ships, buildings, and programs.

Highlights include: the Seaport Museum magazine archive, and a large photo archive connected to the Museum’s ships, buildings, and activities.


Aerial view of Schermerhorn Row Block, ca. 1975
Entrance to South Street Seaport Museum, 16 Fulton Street, ca. 1975
Schermerhorn Row, 1982
Interior of Bowne & Co., Stationers, 211 Water Street, ca. 1985
Repair work on the main deck of Wavertree, 1981
Visitors looking at bark Peking at Pier 16, ca. 1985
School group boarding lightship Ambrose, 1980s
Tugboat Spuyten Duyvil towing lightship Ambrose, 1989
Passengers sailing aboard schooner Pioneer in New York Harbor, 1980s
Schermerhorn Row from Fulton Street, ca. 1990s
View of the Museum fleet from Pier 17, 1994

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12 Fulton Street
NY, NY 10038
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