Featured Item
Roper, Janet L.
Includes black and white portrait and candid photographs of Janet L. Roper, SCI's House Mother from 1915 until her death in 1943. Also represented…
Held services for sailors on Manhattan’s waterfront
SCI's headquarters from 1913-1967
Men's shelter built in response to the Panic of 1920
Built for Danish seamen exiled during WWII
Interior of the chapel at 25 South Street
Game room at 25 South Street
SCI’s boat used for ship visits and transport
Employment Bureau at 25 South Street
Formerly New York School of Navigation and Navigation and Engineering School
Port Newark, New Jersey
Facilities at 25 South Street
SCI's House Mother from 1915-1943
SCI chaplains visit ships with reading material and care packages
Soda fountain and luncheonette at 25 South Street
Founded in 1919 by Janet L. Roper and the Religious and Social Work Department
Inside the lobby at 25 South Street
Christmas at Sea packages delivered
Rooftop instruction on SCI’s “Flying Bridge”
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SCI and WWII 1939-1941
A history of the Merchant Marine during WWII told through the records of the Seamen's Church Institute.
Featured Series
The Lookout
Contains full-text issues of The Lookout, the Seamen's Church Institute's monthly institutional publication, from its first issue of May 1910.
