Life aboard ship and SF Maritime Collections

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Highlights from the Park's collections related to life aboard ship for crew or passengers, at work or at play:

 

Foodways:

• "From Dandyfunk to Cracker jack?" (blog post)
  
• Recipes from The captain's table : 18 recipes for famous dishes served aboard the S.S. United States and S.S. America published
  on the current Full Fathom Five blog, or in its archives.

Games:

• "Digging for Gold at the Library: Shipshape" (blog post)
• "Play Cribbage Like a Sailor" (blog post)

More about life at sea:

• "Black Newsman Went to Sea on the Admiral Line" (article)
  
• "Kaiulani Logbooks Discovered" (Collections Corner article)
• "Maritime Experiences Told First Hand" (Collections Corner article)
• "Photo Archives Spotlight: Definitive Men of the San Francisco Bay" (blog post; second half about the Captain Curt Hasenpusch photograph collection)
  
• "Photo Archives Spotlight: Shipboard Life on a Merchant Steamship" (blog post)
  
• "Vividly written journals detail four voyages of the Niantic"

Getting aboard ship--going to sea:

• San Francisco Shanghaiers (database at Mystic Seaport compiled from our Collections resources)