Primary Resources: Primary Sources at the Luce Library

The college’s institutional records document the development of nautical education in the United States. The archives include college bulletins, yearbooks, administrative records, press coverage, scrapbooks, photographs, school, and training ship records, student records, and more. The college archives also include personal papers of graduates who went on to have distinguished careers in the maritime industry.

The Stephen B. Luce Library is home to dozens of special collections that document the history of significant people and organizations in the maritime industry.

Finding Aids serves as guides to collections. Explore finding aids for the college archives and special collections held at the Stephen B. Luce Library.

Explore our digital collections including letters, photographs, and oral histories!

Sailors’ Snug Harbor, founded in 1801, was the first maritime home and hospital for retired sailors in the United States—and effectively the first nursing home in the country—offering food, lodging, healthcare and companionship. The archives of Sailors’ Snug Harbor contain incredible and largely untapped riches that tell overlapping stories of maritime history, New York City history, 19th literature and art, and medical and social history.