Wood Canoe and Boat Catalogs on CDROM
These catalog collection on CD-ROM contain images from a wide variety of historic wood canoe and boat manufacturer catalogs. Four volumes are currently available; each is provided with a browser interface compatible with Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer on both PC and Macintosh computers.
Ordering information is found on our Order Form
The catalog collections will prove valuable to:
Wood canoe and boat historians: The catalogs contain valuable information about the history of these companies, information about the canoes, boats, and accessories they offered, and provide a look at changing tastes and advertising strategies over the years
Wood canoe and boat restorers: The catalogs aid in the identification of builder and model of unknown boats. They provide valuable information about materials and construction methods used, options and accessories, as well as colors and color designs that may have been used.
Catalog Collectors: The catalogs on the CDs can be used to identify catalogs in a collection that are undated, and can help to evaluate condition and completeness of individual catalogs.
Four volumes are available:
- The Historic Wood Canoe and Boat Company Catalog Collection
- The Canadian Wood Canoe and Boat Company Catalog Collection
- The Complete Old Town Canoe Company Catalog Collection
- TheThompson Brothers Manufacturing Company Catalog Collection
We've outgrown a single CD! This new version on two CD-ROMs is a collection of many catalogs from many U.S. manufacturers; pretty much everybody except Old Town, Thompson, Penn Yan and the Canadian manufacturers. To aid in accessing information, model and design indices are provided for manufacturers with multiple catalogs. We've added lots of catalogs over the 6 years that Version 1 has been offered. To help you know if anything has been added that you may be interested in, the dates listed in italic were added to Version 1 since its initial release (therefore, depending on when you purchased Version 1, you may or may not already have it). Those dates listed in bold type are new additions and have never been released on one of our CDs before. Many of the newest additions are the truely rare and old items, like some of the Rushton and Bowdish catalogs. Some of these scans were made from the only known surviving copy. Given the expense one would incur trying to collect original copies of all of these catalogs, we believe this is truly a bargain!
Catalogs included are:
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This CD contains complete catalogs from a variety of Canadian canoe and boat manufacturers, including Chestnut Canoe Company, Peterborough Canoe Company, Canadian Canoe Company, Walter Dean, Rice Lake and more.
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This CD contains every page of every catalog published by the Old Town Canoe Company between 1901 and 1993. Indices provide easy access to the catalogs by year, to individual boat or canoe models, and color designs offered over the years. Other ephemera (postcards, etc) and a chart to date canoes and boats by serial numbers are also included.
This CD contains complete catalogs from the Thompson wooden boat era. Every year between 1907 and 1970 is represented by at least one catalog (except 1908, 1909 and 1911; catalogs for these years are not believed to have been published). Many years have multiple catalog versions.
The CD also contains Thompson spin-off companies: Cruisers, Inc. (1954, 1956, 1958-1963,1967), T&T Boats (1962-1964), Thompson of NY (1959-1962), Thompson Royal-Craft, Thompson by Chris-Craft (1963-1965) and Thompson Skis (1960).
Thompson canoe and boat models are fully indexed, and an index to color designs is also provided. Other items included are some articles about the history of Thompson Brothers and patent papers for a wood canvas canoe mold.