Items and Collections
Items
An Item is an individual engineering drawing. Each Item belongs to a Collection. Click on the title of the Item (the drawing title) to see detailed information about a drawing.
Each Item record contains a variety of information, which may include:
- Title: The title of the drawing.
- Subject: What the drawing is generally about. Examples include “Piping and fittings,” “Propulsion,” and “Fuel system.”
- Description: Vessel names associated with the drawing. These may include the vessel for which the drawing was created and its sister ships.
- Creator: The entity that created the drawing (usually a company).
- Publisher: The entity making the drawing available to the public. The University of Wisconsin-Superior Special Collections is the Publisher for all drawings in this index.
- Rights: Important copyright information associated with the drawing.
- Identifier: A unique number assigned to the drawing. You will need this number if you wish to order a copy of a drawing.
- Abstract: Notes about the drawing including, in many cases, the drawing number.
- Date Created: The original date of the drawing.
- Date Modified: Any recorded dates that changes were made to the drawing.
- Is Part Of: The archival collection to which the drawing belongs. All drawings in this index are part of the Fraser Shipyards Collection.
- Original Format: The physical format of the drawing. There are two formats in this collection: large format (paper) drawings, and 35 mm slides.
- Physical Dimensions: The measurements of the drawing.
- Tags: Learn about Tags and how to use them on our Tags help page.
Collections
A Collection is a group of drawings. Fraser Shipyards created these groupings when they were using drawings for a particular job. For example, the Collection entitled “Tube 116: Str. Edmund Fitzgerald, Boiler Automation Reference Drawings,” contains drawings of the Edmund Fitzgerald used for reference by Fraser Shipyards when they were working on updating the Fitzgerald’s boiler system. You can click on the title of a Collection to see additional information about that Collection, as well as a list of drawings in the Collection.
Each Collection record contains a variety of information:
- Title: The title assigned to the Collection by Fraser Shipyards. This may include a “tube number” or “drawer number.” These numbers represent Fraser Shipyard’s original filing system.
- Description: Vessels associated with the Collection.
- Creator: The entity that created the Collection (though not necessarily the entity that created all of the drawings in the Collection). Fraser Shipyards is the Creator for all Collections in this index.
- Publisher: The entity making the Collection available to the public. The University of Wisconsin-Superior Special Collections is the Publisher for all Collections in this index.
- Is Part Of: The archival collection to which this group of drawings belongs. All Collections in this index are part of the Fraser Shipyards Collection.
- Items in the Collection: A sampling of the Items in a Collection are listed at the bottom of the page. To see a list of ALL drawings in the Collection, click on the link at the top of the list.