ARCHIVES OF RECORDS, PLANS AND DRAWINGS The archive of the National Maritime Museum contains material from most chapters of maritime history. The collections consist both of material emanating from the museum and that which has been collected or donated.
The records/plans and drawings archive collections embrace app. 400 metres of shelved archive material. Here there are archives from shipyards, shipping lines, associations and private persons. There is also an important collection of plans and drawings. The different site investigations carried out under the auspices of the museum have produced much in the way of written material and interviews. These mainly concern the life and working conditions of seamen and coastal inhabitants. The development of boating as a sport during the 20th century can be studied via the large number of plans and drawings of pleasure craft contained in the archive. The emphasis is on the first half of the century.
Among the collections the archive of the internationally well-known 18th century ship designer Fredrik Henrik af Chapman deserves special mention. Apart from technical calculations the archive also contains a large collection of plans and drawings comprising both naval and merchant ships. Major collections of plans and drawings exist from:
Shipyards Bergsunds mekaniska verkstad (Bergsund’s Engineering Workshops)
Lindholmens varv (Lindholmen’s Shipyard)
Motala verkstad (Motala Workshops)
Mälarvarvet (The Mälaren Yard)
Södra varvet (The Southern Yard - also known as William Lindberg’s Yard)
Yacht designers and boatyards Abrahamsson Sven
Andersson Albert
Brohäll, Per
Enderlein Olle
Forslund, Gideon
Fröbergs båtvarv (Fröberg’s boatyard)
Herlin Tore
Holm Tore
Iversen, Jac
KSSS, Royal Swedish Yacht club
Lawner, Per
Ljungberg Knut
Neglingevarvet (Stockholms båtbyggeri AB, Plyms varv)(The Neglinge Yard -Stockholm Boatbuilding AB, Plym’s Yard)
Nygren Axel
Pettersson CG
Reimers, Knud
Salander Erik
Sjögren KE
Smith Carl
Thorell Sven
Östlund Ruben
Large portions of the plans and drawings collection are easily accessible via microfilm. In certain cases, however, the rules of copyright limit the possibility of copying.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVESThe photographic collections contains some 300,000 photographs, 25,000 transparencies and a large collection of sciopticon photographs.
These photographs cover a timespan from the 1860s onwards.
Several large photographic collections have been donated or
purchased over the years.
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