Summary Information

Title: William W. Bates Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1857-1912

Creator:

• Bates, William W. (William Wallace), 1827-1912

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 85

Quantity: 0.5 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Bates, a shipbuilder at Manitowoc, Wis., and Chicago, and authority on subjects connected with navigation, consisting of a number of blueprints, drawings, specifications, and plans for vessels; a few bills and receipts; letters to George C. Walker about his yacht; several muster rolls and letters relating to Bates' Civil War service in the 19th Wisconsin Infantry; and the manuscript of his “American Navigation; The Political History of Its Rise and Ruin” published in 1902.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0085

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