Biography of H. Prescott Shreeve
H. Prescott Shreeve was president of the Lake Hopatcong Ice Yachting Association and a member of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association.
Scope and Contents of the Papers
The H. Prescott Shreeve papers include the Rules and Bylaws of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association and its member club, the Lake Hopatcong Ice Yachting Club. The collection also includes correspondence to H. Prescott Shreeve while he was president of the organization, newsletters of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association, maps of Lake Hopatcong and Lake Greenwood, where club members sailed, announcements of club meetings, notes taken by Shreeve at those meetings, drawings of vessels made by Shreeve, sales brochures for ice yachting companies, safety brochures, and newspaper and magazine clippings about ice yachting and ice yacht races. Information about races is limited to these clippings, one set of race scores, and entry forms. The EIYA newsletters provide the gretest information about club activities. Mailing lists of the club are restricted from user access. The bulk of the material dates from the late 1960s.
Restrictions
Restrictions on Access
Available for use in the Manuscripts Division.
Restrictions on Use
Various copying restriction apply. Guidelines are available from the Manuscripts Division.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the G. W. Blunt White Library. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Persons:
Rudge, Raymond A.
Shreeve, H. Prescott
Corporate Bodies (Including Vessels):
Eastern Ice Yachting Association
Lake Hopatcong Ice Yachting Club
Places:
Greenwood Lake (N.J. and N.Y.)
Hopatcong, Lake (N.J. : Lake)
Subjects:
Iceboating
Yacht clubs
Yachting
Yachts
Document Types:
Advertisements
By-laws
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Correspondence
Drawing
Invoices
Mailing lists [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
Maps
Newsletters
Pamphlets
Research (Document genres)
Administrative Information
Coll. 313, Manuscripts Collection, G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
| H. Prescott Shreeve Papers; 1938-1970 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||||
| Box 1 | Folder 1 | Rules, regulations and by-laws of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association; 1938-1967 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | EIYA Bulletins and newsletters; 1948-1969, n.d. | |||||||||||
| 3 | EIYA Meeting announcements and notes 1962, 1968, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 4 | H. Prescott Shreeve Correspondence; 1940-1968, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Racing applications and scores; 1959, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Invitations and announcements of social events; 1942, 1959-1965. | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Maps, Lake Hopatcong and Lake Greenwood; 1962, 1965, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 8 | H. Prescott Shreeve, drawings and notes about vessels; n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Safety brochures; 1965-1966, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Advertisements and commercial brochures; 1964-c.1970, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Invoices; 1965-1966, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Clippings (Mostly photocopies of originals.) 1939-1958. | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Clippings (Mostly photocopies of originals.) 1965. | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Clippings (Mostly photocopies of originals.) 1967-1970. | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Clippings n.d. | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Address lists [RESTRICTED ACCESS]; 1958-1965, n.d. | ||||||||||||