Erik A. R. Ronnberg Jr. Collection Finding Aid - CAM Library & Archives Digital Collections

Creator:	Erik Axel Rune Ronnberg Jr., 1944-
Dates:	circa 1927-2023
Quantity:	32 linear feet
Acquisition:	Gift of Erik Ronnberg Jr., 2021 [Acc. #2021.024].
Identification:	A106; Archive Collection #106
Citation:	[Document Title]. The Erik A. R. Ronnberg Jr. Collection, [Box #, Folder #], Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Gloucester, MA.
Restrictions:	The collection is open for research.
Copyright:	Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be addressed to the Librarian/Archivist. The Cape Ann Museum does not own the copyright to some of the items in this collection.
Language:	English, Swedish, French, German, Dutch, Spanish
Finding Aid:	Processing and finding aid completed by Savannah Miller, 2025; Supervisor: Trenton Carls, Head Librarian & Archivist

Erik Axel Rune Ronnberg, Jr., was born on September 14^th, 1944 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and lived in Rockport, Massachusetts for much of his life. Ronnberg Jr. is most notably known for making model ships, a skill which he learned from his father, Erik Axel Rune Ronnberg, Sr., who immigrated to Rockport from Sweden in the early 1940s.

Ronnberg Jr. studied biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from 1962-1965 and transferred to Long Island University in 1967 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in biology in 1968. From 1968 onward, Ronnberg led an expansive career as a maritime artist and consultant.

In the late 1960s, Ronnberg worked for the engineering and model making company Atkins & Merrill in Sudbury, MA. After graduating from Long Island University, he worked as the associate curator of maritime history at the New Bedford Whaling Museum (at the time called the Old Dartmouth Historical Society). From 1979 to 1981, he was a consultant for the National Trust and an assistant to naval architect and grant advisor William A. Baker, and was a grant advisor himself in 1982. From 1989-1993, Ronnberg was the editor of the Nautical Research Journal, a journal in which he frequently published essays regarding model making and maritime history. From 1997 to 1998, Ronnberg was the keeper-in-residence of the Sargent House Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and provided some exhibit research for the museum. In 2013, Ronnberg became the Adjunct Maritime Curator at the Cape Ann Museum, where he assisted in exhibit design and historical reference, as well as writing commentaries for the Museum’s Fitz Henry Lane Online Catalog. He retired from this position in 2023.

From 1972 until his retirement, Ronnberg made model ships for private collections and museums, usually depicting historic schooners. His work can be found in the Cape Ann Museum, the Hart Nautical Collection at MIT, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Mystic Seaport Museum, among other institutions. He also worked as a consultant for model ship making, full-size ship construction and repairs, and historical maritime research, especially concerning New England and Cape Ann. He has also drafted ship plans for the companies Model Shipways and Bluejacket, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. In 2002 he was awarded the Harold Hahn Award for “extraordinary contributions to the art and craft of ship model building” by the Ship Modelers Association. In addition to making model ships, Ronnberg painted watercolors, illustrated books, gave lectures, and constructed museum exhibits for various institutions.

Ronnberg was a friend and frequent correspondent to many others in the ship model building and maritime art world. Notably, he built many models for marine artist Tom Hoyne to depict in his paintings. He was a member of the Cape Ann Shipmodelers Guild and the Nautical Research Guild, and served as a board or committee member for the Cape Ann Museum, the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Sargent House Museum, and the Sandy Bay Historical Society. He was a lifelong researcher and collector of photographs and archival materials related to Cape Ann history.

Biographical Note

Erik Axel Rune Ronnberg, Jr., was born on September 14^th, 1944 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and lived in Rockport, Massachusetts for much of his life. Ronnberg Jr. is most notably known for making model ships, a skill which he learned from his father, Erik Axel Rune Ronnberg, Sr., who immigrated to Rockport from Sweden in the early 1940s.

Ronnberg Jr. studied biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from 1962-1965 and transferred to Long Island University in 1967 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in biology in 1968. From 1968 onward, Ronnberg led an expansive career as a maritime artist and consultant.

In the late 1960s, Ronnberg worked for the engineering and model making company Atkins & Merrill in Sudbury, MA. After graduating from Long Island University, he worked as the associate curator of maritime history at the New Bedford Whaling Museum (at the time called the Old Dartmouth Historical Society). From 1979 to 1981, he was a consultant for the National Trust and an assistant to naval architect and grant advisor William A. Baker, and was a grant advisor himself in 1982. From 1989-1993, Ronnberg was the editor of the Nautical Research Journal, a journal in which he frequently published essays regarding model making and maritime history. From 1997 to 1998, Ronnberg was the keeper-in-residence of the Sargent House Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and provided some exhibit research for the museum. In 2013, Ronnberg became the Adjunct Maritime Curator at the Cape Ann Museum, where he assisted in exhibit design and historical reference, as well as writing commentaries for the Museum’s Fitz Henry Lane Online Catalog. He retired from this position in 2023.

From 1972 until his retirement, Ronnberg made model ships for private collections and museums, usually depicting historic schooners. His work can be found in the Cape Ann Museum, the Hart Nautical Collection at MIT, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Mystic Seaport Museum, among other institutions. He also worked as a consultant for model ship making, full-size ship construction and repairs, and historical maritime research, especially concerning New England and Cape Ann. He has also drafted ship plans for the companies Model Shipways and Bluejacket, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. In 2002 he was awarded the Harold Hahn Award for “extraordinary contributions to the art and craft of ship model building” by the Ship Modelers Association. In addition to making model ships, Ronnberg painted watercolors, illustrated books, gave lectures, and constructed museum exhibits for various institutions.

Ronnberg was a friend and frequent correspondent to many others in the ship model building and maritime art world. Notably, he built many models for marine artist Tom Hoyne to depict in his paintings. He was a member of the Cape Ann Shipmodelers Guild and the Nautical Research Guild, and served as a board or committee member for the Cape Ann Museum, the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Sargent House Museum, and the Sandy Bay Historical Society. He was a lifelong researcher and collector of photographs and archival materials related to Cape Ann history.

The collection reflects Erik A. R. Ronnberg Jr.’s career as a model shipbuilder and maritime expert based in Rockport, Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England, as well as the Ronnberg family. Materials include correspondence, lectures, essays, ship plans by Ronnberg Jr. and others, original drawings, collected research materials, photographs, and business papers. Effort was made to retain Ronnberg’s original file structure. As such, many topics are represented in different series throughout the collection.

The research and construction of Ronnberg Jr.’s many artistic projects are detailed throughout the collection. Ronnberg Jr. was involved in an ongoing research effort, the Fitz Henry Lane Online Catalog, which is represented by essays, collected and annotated research materials, documentation of exhibits, correspondence about Lane’s artwork, and drafts of commentaries which are published on the website, FitzHenryLaneOnline. Ronnberg Jr.’s numerous other research projects are detailed in the container list.

Correspondence also touches on Ronnberg’s personal life, including his friendship with other model makers, maritime enthusiasts, and museum professionals, including Tom Hoyne, William A. Baker, and Howard I. Chapelle, among others.

Ronnberg’s father, Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Sr., was a master rigger as well as a model shipmaker, and his own models and collaborations with Ronnberg are represented throughout the collection. Ronnberg, Jr. also kept a collection of materials relating to his father and mother. Series VII contains photographs, letters, business receipts, and memo books belonging to Erik A. R. Ronnbreg Sr., diaries from Ronnberg’s maternal grandfather, Axel Benzon, and other family papers.

The collection has nine series:

I. Ship model papers

II. Career papers, 1968-2023

III. Fitz Henry Lane Online Research, 2002-2023

IV. Correspondence, 1962-2020

V. Subject files

VI. Maritime research, 1961-2022

VII. Ronnberg family papers, circa 1927-1981, 2021

VII. Photographs and digital materials

IX. Oversized materials

Scope and Content

The collection reflects Erik A. R. Ronnberg Jr.’s career as a model shipbuilder and maritime expert based in Rockport, Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England, as well as the Ronnberg family. Materials include correspondence, lectures, essays, ship plans by Ronnberg Jr. and others, original drawings, collected research materials, photographs, and business papers. Effort was made to retain Ronnberg’s original file structure. As such, many topics are represented in different series throughout the collection.

The research and construction of Ronnberg Jr.’s many artistic projects are detailed throughout the collection. Ronnberg Jr. was involved in an ongoing research effort, the Fitz Henry Lane Online Catalog, which is represented by essays, collected and annotated research materials, documentation of exhibits, correspondence about Lane’s artwork, and drafts of commentaries which are published on the website, FitzHenryLaneOnline. Ronnberg Jr.’s numerous other research projects are detailed in the container list.

Correspondence also touches on Ronnberg’s personal life, including his friendship with other model makers, maritime enthusiasts, and museum professionals, including Tom Hoyne, William A. Baker, and Howard I. Chapelle, among others.

Ronnberg’s father, Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Sr., was a master rigger as well as a model shipmaker, and his own models and collaborations with Ronnberg are represented throughout the collection. Ronnberg, Jr. also kept a collection of materials relating to his father and mother. Series VII contains photographs, letters, business receipts, and memo books belonging to Erik A. R. Ronnbreg Sr., diaries from Ronnberg’s maternal grandfather, Axel Benzon, and other family papers.

The collection has nine series:

I. Ship model papers

II. Career papers, 1968-2023

III. Fitz Henry Lane Online Research, 2002-2023

IV. Correspondence, 1962-2020

V. Subject files

VI. Maritime research, 1961-2022

VII. Ronnberg family papers, circa 1927-1981, 2021

VII. Photographs and digital materials

IX. Oversized materials

Series I: Ship model papers

This series includes photographs, plans, and reports for a selection of model ships by Ronnberg, Jr., for which a substantial file exists. Papers related to the making of Ronnberg Jr.’s models are integrated throughout this collection in his correspondence, subject files, essays, lectures, museum exhibit preparations, and photographs. Some of the models in this series may also be represented elsewhere.

Series II: Career papers, 1968-2023

For the largest portion of Ronnberg’s career, he was a freelance maritime consultant. This series includes materials related to many of his projects, including ship restorations, museum exhibits, book illustrations, and commentaries about maritime art and history. Prior to working at the Cape Ann Museum, Ronnberg was a frequent researcher and contributor to exhibits at the Museum (formerly the Cape Ann Historical Association) and a distinction has been made between his position at the Museum and his interactions as a researcher and maritime consultant.

This series has five subseries:

Resumes, awards, conferences, and grants
Restoration projects, consultations, illustrations, lectures, and museum exhibits
Cape Ann Museum adjunct curatorial papers
Cape Ann Museum reference correspondence
Edited manuscripts by other authors

Series III: Fitz Henry Lane Online Research, 2002-2023

This series contains photographs, essays, and correspondence concerning the artist Fitz Henry Lane. The bulk the material is background research and drafts for commentaries by Ronnberg in support of the Fitz Henry Lane Online project. Prior to Ronnberg’s tenure as the adjunct curator at the Cape Ann Museum, he had written numerous essays and articles about Lane’s artwork. The bulk of this earlier material is from 2004-2006. Major points of interest include the ships and locales depicted in Lane’s paintings, and Ronnberg was frequently consulted for his opinion on the provenance and content of Lane’s paintings.

Series IV: Correspondence, 1962-2020

Language: English, French (2 files), German (1 file), Swedish (2 files)

Correspondence in this series is about model ship commissions, inquiries from other modelers about Ronnberg’s models and the craft, maritime history, general maritime interests, Cape Ann happenings (meetings, awards, magazines, local politics), and family and personal matters. The series is organized alphabetically by recipient, which may be a person or an institution. Some correspondents may appear both under the name of the institution that they worked at and their personal name.

Series V: Subject Files

Language: English, Dutch (1 item), French (1 item), Swedish (1 item)

The subject files contain plans, photographs, essays, drawings, and correspondence about a variety of topics, collected by Ronnberg throughout his lifetime. The bulk of the material is related to different types of ships. For a list of all the topics in the collection, see the container list.

This series has four subseries:

Ships
William A. Baker papers
Correspondence
Topics

Series VI: Maritime Research, 1961-2022

This series contains research materials collected by Ronnberg, mainly scholarly articles and photographs, that relate to topics of general maritime interest.

Series VII: Ronnberg family papers, circa 1927-1981, 2021

Language: English, Swedish, Danish (1 item)

This series contains photographs, letters, business papers, naval conscription books and notebooks that belonged to Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Sr. and his family. Ronnberg, Sr. was a student and then first mate aboard the Swedish merchant marine ship Abraham Rydberg; yearbooks, notebooks, and photographs from his time aboard the ship are in this series. Other photographs depict the Ronnberg family throughout the 20^th century. The memo books and business receipts are for Ronnberg, Sr.’s sail rigging loft and ship repair shop, from 1945 until 1963, as well as for household expenses during a similar time period. Some materials were annotated with a brief history by Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Jr around 2021.

There are four diaries and an index belonging to Axel Benzon, Ronnberg Jr.'s maternal grandfather, which detail Benzon’s immigration from Denmark to the United States and his family’s life in the 20^th century.

Series VIII: Photograph and multimedia archives

The photographs in this series represent many of the topics that can be found elsewhere in the collection, especially models by Erik A. R. Ronnberg Jr. and Sr. There are also family photographs taken in the second half of the 20^th century, and scenery shots. There are about one hundred CDs and DVDs containing photographs taken by Ronnberg Jr, as well as some films, and VHS tapes and casette tapes that he collected.

Series IX: Oversized materials, plans and drawings

This series contains oversized materials. It includes flat-filed drawings, watercolors, and photographs, and two boxes of legal-sized papers. It also includes 18 rolled plans and drawings which are original construction plans for ships, sail and line plans for model ships drawn by Ronnberg Jr. and others, and original scrollwork drawings by Ronnberg Jr.

Collection Arrangement

Series I: Ship model papers

This series includes photographs, plans, and reports for a selection of model ships by Ronnberg, Jr., for which a substantial file exists. Papers related to the making of Ronnberg Jr.’s models are integrated throughout this collection in his correspondence, subject files, essays, lectures, museum exhibit preparations, and photographs. Some of the models in this series may also be represented elsewhere.

Series II: Career papers, 1968-2023

For the largest portion of Ronnberg’s career, he was a freelance maritime consultant. This series includes materials related to many of his projects, including ship restorations, museum exhibits, book illustrations, and commentaries about maritime art and history. Prior to working at the Cape Ann Museum, Ronnberg was a frequent researcher and contributor to exhibits at the Museum (formerly the Cape Ann Historical Association) and a distinction has been made between his position at the Museum and his interactions as a researcher and maritime consultant.

This series has five subseries:

Resumes, awards, conferences, and grants
Restoration projects, consultations, illustrations, lectures, and museum exhibits
Cape Ann Museum adjunct curatorial papers
Cape Ann Museum reference correspondence
Edited manuscripts by other authors

Series III: Fitz Henry Lane Online Research, 2002-2023

This series contains photographs, essays, and correspondence concerning the artist Fitz Henry Lane. The bulk the material is background research and drafts for commentaries by Ronnberg in support of the Fitz Henry Lane Online project. Prior to Ronnberg’s tenure as the adjunct curator at the Cape Ann Museum, he had written numerous essays and articles about Lane’s artwork. The bulk of this earlier material is from 2004-2006. Major points of interest include the ships and locales depicted in Lane’s paintings, and Ronnberg was frequently consulted for his opinion on the provenance and content of Lane’s paintings.

Series IV: Correspondence, 1962-2020

Language: English, French (2 files), German (1 file), Swedish (2 files)

Correspondence in this series is about model ship commissions, inquiries from other modelers about Ronnberg’s models and the craft, maritime history, general maritime interests, Cape Ann happenings (meetings, awards, magazines, local politics), and family and personal matters. The series is organized alphabetically by recipient, which may be a person or an institution. Some correspondents may appear both under the name of the institution that they worked at and their personal name.

Series V: Subject Files

Language: English, Dutch (1 item), French (1 item), Swedish (1 item)

The subject files contain plans, photographs, essays, drawings, and correspondence about a variety of topics, collected by Ronnberg throughout his lifetime. The bulk of the material is related to different types of ships. For a list of all the topics in the collection, see the container list.

This series has four subseries:

Ships
William A. Baker papers
Correspondence
Topics

Series VI: Maritime Research, 1961-2022

This series contains research materials collected by Ronnberg, mainly scholarly articles and photographs, that relate to topics of general maritime interest.

Series VII: Ronnberg family papers, circa 1927-1981, 2021

Language: English, Swedish, Danish (1 item)

This series contains photographs, letters, business papers, naval conscription books and notebooks that belonged to Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Sr. and his family. Ronnberg, Sr. was a student and then first mate aboard the Swedish merchant marine ship Abraham Rydberg; yearbooks, notebooks, and photographs from his time aboard the ship are in this series. Other photographs depict the Ronnberg family throughout the 20^th century. The memo books and business receipts are for Ronnberg, Sr.’s sail rigging loft and ship repair shop, from 1945 until 1963, as well as for household expenses during a similar time period. Some materials were annotated with a brief history by Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Jr around 2021.

There are four diaries and an index belonging to Axel Benzon, Ronnberg Jr.'s maternal grandfather, which detail Benzon’s immigration from Denmark to the United States and his family’s life in the 20^th century.

Series VIII: Photograph and multimedia archives

The photographs in this series represent many of the topics that can be found elsewhere in the collection, especially models by Erik A. R. Ronnberg Jr. and Sr. There are also family photographs taken in the second half of the 20^th century, and scenery shots. There are about one hundred CDs and DVDs containing photographs taken by Ronnberg Jr, as well as some films, and VHS tapes and casette tapes that he collected.

Series IX: Oversized materials, plans and drawings

This series contains oversized materials. It includes flat-filed drawings, watercolors, and photographs, and two boxes of legal-sized papers. It also includes 18 rolled plans and drawings which are original construction plans for ships, sail and line plans for model ships drawn by Ronnberg Jr. and others, and original scrollwork drawings by Ronnberg Jr.

Series I: Ship model papers

Box 1, Folder 1 Alaska Ocean- USNM & NMAH (2006, 2017)

Box 1, Folder 2 Alaska Ocean (2009, 2017)

Box 1, Folder 3 Cape Ann Ship Modeler’s Guild Meeting Minutes (Alaska Ocean) March 2008-April 2009

Box 1, Folder 4 AMMG/USNM Alaska Ocean 2005-2009

Box 1, Folder 5 Alaska Ocean photographs

Box 1, Folder 6 Alaska Ocean model photographs

Box 1, Folder 7 America model dedication at CAHA, 2003 (2000-2008)

Box 1, Folder 8 America post-1885 (E. Burgess re-design)

Box 1, Folder 9 America CAHA Model (1886 config.) photographs

Box 1, Folder 10 AMMG America Burgess - rebuilding

Box1, Folder 11 Photos – America 1885-1942

Box 1, Folder 12 America at U.S. Naval Academy

Box 1, Folder 13 America, post – 1885 reconstruction

Box 1, Folder 14 America (1851) model 3/8”=1’

Box 1, Folder 15 Line plans for America, 1851 & 1863

Box 1, Folder 16 William Koch/Alan Granby, America, 1867 (2011-2012)

Box 1, Folder 17 America, 1851

Box 1, Folder 18 America 1863 and post-Bellum

Box 1, Folder 19 America 1851 & 1862 versions

Box 1, Folder 20 America Model, 3/8”=1’, 1851 Racing Configuration at Cowes

Box 1, Folder 21 America, as configured for race, Aug 12, 1851

Box1, Folder 22 Letters to George Steers, 1851-1855. Reproduction of collection of letters addressed to Steers.

Box 49 Folder 6 Original Art – B. W. Latham Instructions (Model Shipways) [Oversized]

Box 1 Folder 23 Scallop dragger Bright Star, 1947

Box 1, Folder 24 Tadler – Bright Star

Box 1, Folder 25 Fishing schooner Elsie, 1910. Model to scale 3/8”=1’

Box 49 Folder 5 Original Art – Elsie Instructions (Model Shipways) [Oversized]

Box 1, Folder 26 W.E. James - Elsie

Box 1, Folder 27 Hannah Model W.A.B. / E.R

Box 1, Folder 28 Hannah photographs

Box 1, Folder 29 Dragger Kingfisher, 1946-47 (2012-2013) (Folder 1/2)

Box 2, Folder 1 Dragger Kingfisher, 1946-1947 (2012-2013) (Folder 2/2)

Box 2, Folder 2 Kingfisher 1947 Dana Story Slides

Box 2, Folder 3 Columbia photo and Kingfisher Slides

Box 2, Folder 4 Mount Stewart 1/8”=1’

Box 2, Folder 5 Georges Bank Fishing Schooner M.S. Ayer (2004)

Box 2, Folder 6 Dragger Sylvester F. Whalen, 1946-47

Box 2, Folder 7 Sylvester F. Whalen progress and model photos

Box 2, Folder 8 Progress photos for model Sylvester F. Whalen

Box 2, Folder 9 Victory Chimes

Box 2, Folder 10 Various models with brief captions (binder)

Box 2, Folder 11 Ship Models by Erik Ronnberg scrapbook ca. 1970s

Subseries: Resumes, awards, conferences, and grants

Box 2, Folder 12 Erik Axel Ronnberg Gloucester High School Diploma, 1962

Box 2, Folder 13 Resumes, CVs, personal history, etc (1964-2014) (1/2)

Box 2, Folder 14 Resumes, CVs, personal history, etc (1964-2014) (2/2)

Box 2, Folder 15 Shipbuilding and Ship Design in the Colonial Massachusetts Bay Region – 1968. An essay written by Ronnberg for a class at Long Island University.

Box 2, Folder 16 Cards, Stationery, logos, etc (undated, probably 1970s-1990s)

Box 2, Folder 17 Rockport Marine Center materials (probably 1970s)

Box 2, Folder 18 Ledger book for model commissions, 1981-2019

Box 2, Folder 19 Maritime Life and Traditions Article (1998-2000)

Box 2, Folder 20 Ship Modelers Association Conferences (1998, 2002)

Box 2, Folder 21 Ship Modelers Association Conferences Harold Hahn Award (2001-2002)

Box 2, Folder 22 Awards (2002-2019): Antique and Classic Boat Festival Edgar B Caffrey Award 2019, Gloucester Historical Preservation Award 2006, Ship Modelers Association Harold Hahn Award 2002

Box 2, Folder 23 Mass Cultural Council Artists Grants Program (2003-2013)

Box 2, Folder 24 Hahn Award to Rob Napier (2004)

Box 2, Folder 25 Palate & Palette Article 2023 (annotated)

Subseries: Restoration projects, museum and historical society consultations, illustrations, lectures, and museum exhibits

Ronnberg’s original files have been maintained, which were organized either by the institution he was working with or by the topic of the work.

Box 2, Folder 26 AMMG [American Marine Model Gallery] Designs for Shadow Boxes, Baseboards 1992 – 2002

Box 3, Folder 1 Gloucester Mar. Railways Shadow Box (AMMG 1997)

Box 3, Folder 2 AMMG – Completed Shadow Boxes (1997-2007). Also contains correspondence from 1986 with “Dick” who was in the Arctic.

Box 3, Folder 3 (AMMG) Bruce and Karen Wilburn Shadow Box After Bradford Painting 2005

Box 3, Folder 4 Daniel MacEachron/AMMG – Marryat Surf Boat 2003-2004.

Box 3, Folder 5 Marryat Lifeboat. Hull Lifesaving Museum Lecture, negatives of model.

Box 3, Folder 6 Autobiography with OBS/Godine, 2012, unfinished

Box 3, Folder 7 Old Dartmouth Historical Society Williom Bradford Exhibit, (ca. 1984,-2002, 2015)

Box 3, Folder 8 ODHS Bradford Lecture 2000-2002

Box 4, Folder 1 William Bradford NBWM Essay 2002: William Bradford: “Mastering Form and Developing a Styles, 1852-1862” by Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Jr. Essay published in a catalog from the New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2002-2003

Box 4, Folder 2 Francis Cunningham Newsboy Painting (Wm. Bradford) (2006). Correspondence with Francis Cunningham regarding Newsboy¸ which was built for his great-grandfather Frederic Cunningham in the 1850s. Cunningham owns a never-before-seen painting by Bradford of Newsboy.

Box 4, Folder 3 “William Bradford’s Greenland Odyssey” (Unpublished) 2008-2009. Correspondence with publishers and prospective consultants for an updated publication of “Arctic Regions.” [Material removed: The Arctic Regions prepared in the map department of the National Geographic Society for the National Geographic Magazine by Gilbert Grosvenor, editor. 1925. https://www.natgeomaps.com/hm-1925-arctic-regions]

Box 4, Folder 4 Bonhams & Butterfields Bradford Harbor View (East R., NYC?) (2008): Photographs of a possible Fitz Henry Lane Lane painting that Ronnberg believes is actually a William Bradford.

Box 4, Folder 5 Richard Kugler / Bradford Paintings, Buzzards Bay (2009)

Box 4, Folder 6 ODHS Bradford Exhibit 2013

Box 4, Folder 7 William Bradford Sketches MIT Museum (undated)

Box 4, Folder 8 Misc. slides and photos – unlabeled, but most likely relating to the Bradford Catalog Essay or the NBWM Exhibit.

Box 4, Folder 9 Elder Hostel and Middle St Tours Lectures, CAHA (Cape Ann Historical Association) (2000-2002)

Box 4, Folder 10 Views of the Yacht America at CAM 2009

Box 4, Folder 11 Steam Vessels- CAHA (undated)

Box 4, Folder 12 Harbor Ferry Little Giant – CAHA (undated)

Box 5, Folder 1 Cohn – Book Illustrations Book #1 Simon of Bjørgvin

Box 5, Folder 2 Book #2 Simon’s Voyage to the Western Lands

Box 5, Folder 3 Book #3 Simon Across the Wide Atlantic

Box 5, Folder 4 Book #4 Simon Goes North to Novgorod

Box 5, Folder 5 Simon Books Multimedia

Box 5, Folder 6 OBS – Simon Series 2009

Box 5, Folder 7 Cohn/Ronnberg/OBS Simon of Bjørgvin Book

Box 5, Folder 8 T. Ellis & Schooner Thomas E. Lannon

Box 5, Folder 9 Essex Shipbuilding Museum Dedication (1976-1981, 2010)

Box 5, Folder 10 Story Family

Box 5, Folder 11 Evelina M. Goulart Photos

Box 5, Folder 12 Evelina M. Goulart – published report (Nautical Research Journal Vol. 38, no.2, June 1993)

Box 6, Folder 1 Evelina M. Goulart – plans and report with historical notes

Box 6, Folder 2 EMG – NRJ Article – Figs, permission apps.

Box 6, Folder 3 EMG – Miscellaneous. [Correspondence with Randy Biddle and others, newspaper clippings, hand-drawn plans of a Gloucester swordfisherman model built by Ronnberg, Jr. in 1960.]

Box 6, Folder 4 EMG – Photos, misc graphics

Box 6, Folder 5 Evelina M. Goulart 1959 K. Gosner slides & other photos

Box 6, Folder 6 EMG. Source materials and research, surveys, drawings

Box 6, Folder 7 EMG – Essex Shipbuilding Museum (ESBM) Lectures. Grant applications, future preservation and survey work. Application for a National Trust for Historic Preservation grant. Correspondence with the Mystic Seaport Museum. 1991-1995

Box 6, Folder 8 EMG – Mention in fisheries periodicals. (1993)

Box 6, Folder 9 EMG – Essex Shipbuilding Museum (ESBM) Lectures, 2010. [“Preserving the Remains of the Evelina M. Goulart: An Argument for ‘Chain Saw Archaeology,’” notes on a symposium, “Schooners to Draggers,” newspaper clippings.]

Box 6, Folder 10 E.R. EMG Models 1/8” =1’. [Photos of two models of EMG by Ronnberg, 1999 and 2013, and parts inventory.]

Box 6, Folder 11 Fame project (2002)

Box 6, Folder 12 Glen S. Foster Collection Commentary (1998)

Box 6, Folder 13 Gertrude L. Thebaud Plans & Photos (undated – 2016)

Box 6, Folder 14 Greg Gibson Globe Mutiny Illustrations

Box 6, Folder 15 Independent Christian Church Lectures 2000-2005

Box 6, Folder 16 Lettie G. Howard – 1990-2002. Restoration by the New York South Street Seaport Museum

Box 7, Folder 1 Lettie G. Howard Plans and Report

Box 7, Folder 2 Lettie G. Howard – David Short/South St. Seaport Museum Restoration 1991

Box 7, Folder 3 Lettie G. Howard plans (from Roger Long, Marine Architecture, Inc.)

Box 7, Folder 4 Lettie G. Howard at South St. Seaport Museum Photographs

Box 7, Folder 6 POW Model Restorations (1980-1994)

Box 7, Folder 7 Lusk – Perry model repairs (1990)

Box 7, Folder 8 Prisoner of War Models Restored by ER Jr.

Box 7, Folder 9 POW Models in A.A-B collection (minor repairs by ER Jr)

Box 7, Folder 10 POW models (private collections)

Box 7, Folder 11 NRJ, “Colors for American Merchant Vessels, 1800-1920”. (Manuscript, published copy of Vol 36, no. 4, December 1991.)

Box 7, Folder 12 Nautical Research Journal Articles

Box 7, Folder 13 Nimble Report (1982-1987, 2020)

Box 8, Folder 1 Coolidge – Nimble Model

Box 49 Folder 7 Philip C. Bolger, Model Plans 1971-1972 [Oversized]

Box 8, Folder 2 Boat lettering and carving – Redbird¸ Marblehead

Box 8, Folder 3 Drawing of Rigging Loft

Box 8, Folder 4 Sandy Bay Historical Society 1981 National Trust for Historical Preservation Grant Proposals

Box 8, Folder 5 Sandy Bay Historical Society Dory Transfer w/ photos (1992)

Box 8, Folder 6 SBHS Lecture “Fish Bills, Fishing Schooners, and Chebacco Boats” (1995) (See Box 8, Folder 13 “Miscellaneous Ship Research” and Box 49 Folder 10 “John White Marshall Collection at the Sandy Bay Historical Society, #1753, p. 153-173.”)

Box 8, Folder 7 Sandy Bay Historical Association 1996-2013

Box 8, Folder 8 Sandy Bay Historical Society Lectures ca. 1999-2005: Topics: Cape Ann Vessels in Miniature, 2005. Stone Sloops, 1999. Sandy Bay Fisheries, undated

Box 8, Folder 9 Lecture “Sandy Bay Fishermen and their Families,” Sandy Bay Hist. Society Jun 9, 2015.

Box 8, Folder 10 Sargent House Museum Lectures (probably late 1990s)

Box 8, Folder 11 Sargent House Museum Guidebook (1996-1998)

Box 8, Folder 12 Unitarian Universalism (probably late 1990s)

Box 8, Folder 13 Miscellaneous Ship Research (probably 1990s) (See Box 8 Folder 6)

Box 9 Folder 1 Hart Nautical Collection – Bethlehem Steel Co. and Steam Trawlers (1/2)

Box 9 Folder 2 Hart Nautical Collection – Bethlehem Steel Co. and Steam Trawlers (2/2)

Box 9 Folder 3 Hart Nautical Collection – Bethlehem Steel Co. and Hagley Museum and Library – Shipbuilding resources

Box 9 Folder 4 Correspondence with Nello Laborai (2016)

Box 9 Folder 5 Steam Trawler Spray, 1905 – PM/S HNM P-1073 (Lines only)

Box 9 Folder 6 Steam Trawler Plans, Fore River 1906-1913 and specs (Surf)

Box 9 Folder 7 T.M. Hoyne Steam Trawler Surf : (1989-1990)

Box 10 Folder 1 NRJ – Steam Trawlers Article (1995-1996) (Vol. 40, no. 3)

Box 10 Folder 2 Figures for Nautical Research Journal Article [Steam Trawlers]

Box 10 Folder 3 Surf – Drawings

Box 10 Folder 4 Steam Trawlers – Fore River Shipbldg. 1905-1913

Box 10 Folder 5 MIT Museum Plans Lecture (1987-1989, 2009). Lecture titled “Steam Trawlers in the New England Fishing Fleet: A Decade of Transition, 1905-1915.” And: notes about a lecture at the Maritime Heritage Center, Gloucester, 2009.

Box 10 Folder 6 Other Steam Trawlers-U.S.

Box 10 Folder 7 British & Canadian Steam Trawlers: Correspondence with M. Brook Taylor from Mount Saint Vincent University History Dept. about research

Box 10 Folder 8 Photos of Steam Trawlers from various repositories

Box 10 Folder 9 Fore River: Hulls 200 & 201 Specifications (HNC)

Box 47 Item 1 & 2 Hart Nautical Collections – The MIT Museum. Bethlehem Collection, Lot 186. Misc. Calculations, Hull Dept, FRSB, Book 1 and Book 6

Flat file Drawer 1 Original drawing and edits of map for Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europe by Joseph E. Garland. Titled “The 157^th Regiment’s Front November-December 1943,” drawn by Erik Ronnberg, Jr and labelled by Joseph E. Garland, 2008. (11 in x 17 in and letter-sized)

Box 10 Folder 10 “Vincent’s Cove in the 1870s, A Pictorial Record of Gloucester Shipbuilding,” – W. Homer, W. Elwell. (Nautical Research Journal, Vol. 41, no. 4, 1996)

Box 10 Folder 11 Watercraft etc. Lectures (1 folder):

Modeling Square-Rigged Vessels, Peabody Council on Aging.
A Modelmaker’s Year with 4 Small Craft Types – No – Make that 8 or Modeling boats with their own boats, Traditional Small Craft Association, 2002.
Wherries, Dories, Seine boats and Yawl Boats, TSCA 1998.
Ship Models for Art’s Sake or The Unquantifiable Side of Ship Modeling (undated. A discussion of Ronnberg’s collaboration with artist Tom Hoyne, and the artistic aspects of modelmaking).
The Colonial Schooner – Origins and Development, at the tenth annual meeting of the Washington’s Naval Base, Inc., 1999

Box 10 Folder 12 Yeshiva University Museum Galley & Dhow (2002-2005)

Box 11 Folder 1 Yeshiva University Museum Traders to North Exhibit 2006 – 2007

Box 11 Folder 2 Miscellaneous lecture slides, photos and negatives

Subseries: Cape Ann Museum adjunct curatorial papers

Box 11 Folder 3 Cape Ann Museum Columbian Expo 1893 & 1892 Diorama. Original drawings of new diorama layout, 1993 reassembly (1988-1993)

Box 11 Folder 4 CAM - Davis Gallery Diorama (2012)

Box 11 Folder 5 Davis Gallery Diorama Base Construction (No date)

Box 11 Folder 6 CAM – Davis Gallery Floor Plan (No date)

Box 11 Folder 7 Davis Gallery Diorama Prelim. Design + Layout, 2012

Box 11 Folder 8 Davis Gallery – Diadem Serpent Head

Box 11 Folder 9 CAM Davis Gallery Diorama Preliminary Designs – Not Used, 2012

Box 11 Folder 10 Paintings in CAM used for Davis Gallery Model ½” = 1’

Box 11 Folder 11 Gloucester Harbor Diorama Cape Ann Museum 1995-2013

Box 11 Folder 12 CAM 1993 Diorama

Box 11 Folder 13 Gloucester Harbor Diorama as Exhibited in 1892 Gallery, at CAM 1993 – 2013

Box 11 Folder 14 Harbor Diorama

Box 11 Folder 15 CAM in local news 1995/2013

Box 11 Folder 16 CAM – Gloucester Harbor Gallery (2014).

Box 11 Folder 17 William Bradford, “Portrait of the ship HARRY BLUFF,” essay (Nov 2, 2014)

Box 11 Folder 18 Cape Ann Museum Maritime Planning Committee (2014-2015)

Box 11 Folder 19 Fitz Henry Lane Catalogue Raisonnée Committee (2014-2016)

Box 11 Folder 20 Fitz Henry Lane Catalogue Raisonnée Descriptive Essays (2015-2017)

Box 11 Folder 21 Lecture “No Time for Sorrowing,” at CAM (March 14, 2015)

Box 11 Folder 22 “Hovey Cup 1892 Fishermen’s Race,” essay (2015)

Box 11 Folder 23 Original Drawing: “Measurements from Thacher’s Island Lens” (Aug 13, 2015)

Box 11 Folder 24 CAM Dec 2015 Director’s Meeting

Box 11 Folder 25 Marlinspike Article – CAM Reopens (2015)

Box 11 Folder 26 CAM Promo Materials (2016-2022)

Box 11 Folder 27 Joe Garland Memorial 8/26/2016

Box 11 Folder 28 Henry W. Longfellow by Willard E. Andrews (2016). Donation papers and accompanying materials for the accession of the model Henry W. Longfellow by Willard E. Andrews

Box 11 Folder 29 Sophronia by Willard E. Andrews (2016). Donation papers and accompanying materials for the accession of the model Sophronia by Willard E. Andrews

Box 11 Folder 30 FH Lane and Robert Bennet Forbes lecture by M.M. Lovell (Oct 28 2017)

Box 11 Folder 31 Cape Ann Views by Cape Ann Photographers (2018)

Box 11 Folder 32 Ship model labels (ca. 2020)

Box 11 Folder 33 Exhibit Material- Mackerel Fisheries (2021)

Box 11 Folder 34 Mackerel Fishing Exhibit Labels (2021)

Box 11 Folder 35 Coastal Fishing Dory Exhibit (2022)

Box 11 Folder 36 Maritime Exhibits: Harbor Industries. Contains plan for the Benjamin W. Latham by Ronnberg, 1973, from the Model Shipways Co., Inc, NJ. (No date)

Box 11 Folder 37 Maritime Labels (No date)

Box 11 Folder 38 William Bygrave Paintings CAM & Elsewhere (No date)

Box 11 Folder 39 Paintings of Cape Ann Commentary (No date)

Box 11 Folder 40 Native Americans

Box 11 Folder 41 Cod, Haddock, Herring

Box 11 Folder 42 Charts

Box 11 Folder 43 People

Box 11 Folder 44 Plates from Goode

Box 11 Folder 45 African-Gloucesterians

Subseries: Cape Ann Museum reference correspondence

Box 11 Folder 46 Correspondence 2014-2021

Box 11 Folder 47 Schr. Annie M. Parker (2014-2015)

Box 11 Folder 48 David Miller Reference: Dory Centennial (2013) (according to his email he just did “volunteer work” for CAM at the time)

Box 11 Folder 49 Lawrence Family Reference Q. (2014)

Box 11 Folder 50 Yachts – Cape Ann (2014)

Box 11 Folder 51 Vessel Portraits w/ FHL Attributions

Box 11 Folder 52 Lime Shipping

Box 11 Folder 53 Blackburn/ Grace L. Fears

Box 11 Folder 54 Fitz Henry Lane – Papers About

Box 11 Folder 55 John Wilbur Correspondence (2016) about B.W. Latham and other vessels

Box 11 Folder 56 Lise Breen Correspondence (2017) about the Atlantic slave trade in art

Subseries: Edited Manuscripts

Box 11 Folder 57 Essex Built and Out O’ Gloucester – Will Andrews (Manuscript)

Box 11 Folder 58 Open Book Systems, Inc – Will Andrews Manuscript

Box 11 Folder 59 Willard E. Andrews Essex-Built and Out O’ Gloucester Final Manuscript (1/2)

Box 11 Folder 60 Willard E. Andrews Essex-Built and Out O’ Gloucester Final Manuscript (122)

Box 12 Andrews Manuscript August 2020 (2 folders)

Box 13, Item 1 Ship Logs of Captain Elias Davis of Gloucester edited by Paul McGeary

Box 13, Folder 1 Ship Logs of Captain Elias Davis of Gloucester