The Jim Dan Hill Library at the University of Wisconsin-Superior now has a unique collection. The university won a $50,000 National Maritime Heritage Grant to preserve thousands of documents from Fraser Shipyards, Inc. of Superior.
According to the Duluth [MN] News Tribune, among the “3,000 technical drawings, 8,500 aperture card negatives and several boxes of correspondences and reports” are the “working design documents and blueprints of such well-known vessels as the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
Don’t get too excited yet. The collection will take about 18 month to fully catalog the entire collection that spans 125 years of the company.
Interested in more information? Read the full story in the August 16, 2015 Duluth News Tribune.
The University has more history of the company and details of some available material here.
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