Bibliography: Eagle Boats

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Eagle Boats Bibliography

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Archival

  • Acc. 62 Henry Ford Office papers
    • box 8 Daniels, Josephns
    • box 58 
      • Naval patrol boats (2 folders)
      • Cleveland Dock Engineering Company
      • Construction
      • Suppliers, materials, purchasing
      • Contract (subcontractors)
    • box 81 Daniels, Josephus, 1916
    • box 106 Naval patrol boats - "Eagle" boats - trial runs
       
  • Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office papers
    • box 13 KI includes Frank E. Kirby re: Eagle Boats, 1921
    • box 170 E151 Eagle Boats, 1923
  • Acc. 1 Fair Lane papers
    • box 174 Eagle Boats, correspondence and photographs, 1919
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  • Acc. 116 World War I; Production Record
    • box 1
      • Folder # 1 Correspondence, telegrams, etc., re: Eagle Boat construction
      • Folder # 2 U.S. Navy correspondence re: Eagle Boat (Patrol Boat) contract; Revised estimate of shipbuilding plant, River Rouge, Mich. Sept - Dec 1918; Order and correspondence re: installation of motors in dories
      • Folder # 3 U. S. Navy correspondence re: installation of motors in dories; Contracts (or U.S. Navy purchase orders) for the installation of engines in motor dories. June 17, 1918; Charles Pieze (Vice-President, United States Shipping Board,Emergency Fleet Corp) letter to Judge E. B. Parker, Aug 1, 1918; Decision as to Wages, Hours and other Conditions in North Atlantic and Hudson River Shipyards, April 6, 1918
      • Folder # 4 U. S. Navy Dept. correspondence. Includes; Contract for appraisal and settlement for buildings, building slips and plant and other facilities used in connection with construction of patrol boats, etc.; Contract correspondence; Supplementary contract for additional plant in connection with construction of patrol boats; Commander Bean correspondence, February 1919; Listing of some of the contracts in connection with operations; Miscellaneous letters and papers re: contract
      • Folder # 6 Eagle Boats...Supplementary contract re: disposition of Building "B" in connection with construction of Patrol Boats December 12, 1919 signed by F. D. Roosevelt Acting Secretary of the Navy
      • Folder # 9 Blueprints of Patrol Boat parts, etc.; Tabulation of cost of Kearney job up to time of date the telegram was received stopping operation
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  • Acc. 7 Clipping Books
    • Volume 142-143 Eagle Boats, 1918-1920
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  • Acc. 364 Agreements and contracts subgroup
    • box 7 Department of Navy; receipts, parts contract, correspondence for Eagle Boats 1, 2, 3
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  • Acc. 75 Legal Department records
    • box 65 L-5016 Kearney Plant (Eagle boats), 1919 (contract)
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  • Acc. 38 Charles Sorensen papers
    • box 163 Blueprints; Pneumercator system, Eagle boats
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  • Acc. 488 Frank Hadas papers
    • box 1 
      • Hadas correspondence concerning Ship Building operations, 1918
      • "Record of the Electric Installation on Eagle Boats," Ford Motor Company, 1919
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  • RC. 21 General Postcard Collection
    • box 10 (size J) World War, 1914-1918--Industry, American--Boats and Ships--Eagle Boats
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  • Engineering and Aperture Cards Collection
    • drawer 4 Eagle Boats
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  • Small Accessions
    • Acc. 1110 Frank A. Cianflone Eagle Boat Article 
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  • Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File
    • box 168 World War, 1914-1918 – Industry American – Boats and Ships – Eagle Boats (General; Assembly Line Methods; Documents; Engineers and Designers – Kirby, F.E.; Ford, Edsel;  Ford, Henry; Inspection; Launching;  Ships Crew
    • box 170 World War, 1939-1945 – Industry American – Boats and Ships – Eagle Boats
       
  • Acc. 833 General Photographs
    • box 265 Shipyard, 1918-1919 (556a)
    • box 435 War production – World War I (2 folders)

Periodicals

  • The Dearborn Historian, “The Ford Eagle Boats.” Katherine M. Cushman. Winter 1971, v.11, n.1

Oral Histories

Vertical File

  • WWI-Eagle Boats
    • Blueprints/Plans
    • General Articles
    • Industrial Management Series (1919)
    • Post-1920
    • Pre-1920
    • Miscellaneous

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