Collection Overview
Title: Yske C. Spyksma Collection, 1939-1973
ID: COLL/241
Creator: Spyksma, Yske C. (1891-1978)
Extent: 0.25 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Employee of Lunham & Reeve, a shipping company in New York; an amateur ship historian; and secretary-treasurer of the Committee in the East on Historical Documents of the Christian Reformed Church (Eastern Historical Committee). The collection includes clippings and correspondence detailing emigration, immigration, and genealogy; and a series of articles published in De Wachter entitled "Van Schepen ter Zee."
Biographical Note
Yske Spyksma was born on July 20, 1981 and he died on September 24, 1976 in Wyckoff, New Jersey. His wife, Cornelia Van Dyk preceded him in death.
Box and Folder Listing
- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- December 1952 - November 1953
- Folder 2: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - October, 1954
- Folder 3: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - November, 1955
- Folder 4: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - November, 1956
- Folder 5: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - November, 1957
- Folder 6: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - December, 1958
- Folder 7: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- February - December, 1959
- Folder 8: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- March - November, 1960
- Folder 9: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- February - November, 1961
- Folder 10: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- February - November, 1962
- Folder 11: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - November, 1963
- Folder 12: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - December, 1964
- Folder 13: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - December, 1965
- Folder 14: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - December, 1966
- Folder 15: "Van Schepen ter Zee" --- January - April, 1967
- Folder 16: "Dutch Settlement in New Jersey" --- 1973
- Folder 17: "Concerning Ships at Sea," De Wachter, translated --- October 27, 1964 and December 2, 1952
- Folder 18: Jonas Michaelius - Martin Annes Ypma --- [1953]
- Folder 19: World War II clippings --- 1939-1940
- Folder 20: Oostermeer, Heeg, Rinsemageest, Oosterlittens, Minnertsga, Edens, Wolvega, Driesum - Friesland clippings --- 1952
- Folder 21: De Pelgrim Vaders van het Westen - D. Versteeg [handwritten copy]
- Folder 22: Correspondence --- 1952-1957
- Box Vault: Book one: Van Schepen ter Zee, 1952-1954 (microfilmed) --- 1966