Guide to the Gail And Stephen Rudin Collection Of Simon Lake Submarine Materials,
1898-1964.

Collection Number: 6992

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Date completed:
October 2012
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, October 2012
Date modified:
RMC Staff, October 2012

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Gail and Stephen Rudin collection of Simon Lake submarine materials, 1898-1964.
Collection Number:
6992
Creator:
Rudin, Stephen,
Quantity:
.5 cubic feet.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, printed materials, publications, photographs
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Letters, stock certificates, drawings, photographs, and publications related to Simon Lake's designs for submarines.
Language:
Collection material in English


COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Letters, stock certificates, drawings, photographs, and publications related to Simon Lake's designs for submarines.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Rudin, Stephen,
Lake, Simon, 1866-1945.

Subjects:
Submarines (Ships).


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Gail and Stephen Rudin collection of Simon Lake submarine materials, #6992. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Letters, Manuscripts, and Documents
Series II. Photographs
Series III. Magazines, Reprints, and Pamphlets

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
October 14, 1899
"A Trip to the Submarine Boat Argonaut"
Box 2 Folder 1
Typewritten manuscript. Embellished with ink cutaway drawings of the vessel. Apparently presented to Lake after a visit to the Erie Basin.
Rudin # SL-1
July 8, 1905
Draft contract between Lake and battery manufacturer in Russia
Box 2 Folder 2
Signed by Lake.
Rudin # SL-2
October 2, 1939
Simon Lake
Addressee: Boston Sunday Herald
Writer's location: New York
Box 1 Folder 1
TLS
Pages: 1
Letter about military submarines and the use of cargo-carrying submarines. Accompanied by a photo of Lake showing what a cargo-carrying submarine might look like.
Rudin # SL-3
May 21, 1942
Simon Lake
Addressee: son-in-law
Writer's location: Philadelphia
Box 1 Folder 2
ALS
Pages: 2
States that Lake will be meeting with Mr. (J. Louis) Reynolds on the matter of cargo-carrying submarines.
Rudin # SL-4
n.d.
Simon Lake
Addressee: son-in-law Cecil Ford
Writer's location:
Box 1 Folder 3
TLS
Pages: 1
Instructions for yard and property maintenance while Lake is away on a trip.
Rudin # SL-5
n.d.
Simon Lake
Addressee: Wife
Box 1 Folder 4
ANS
Pages: 1
"To my wife 'Mocky', with fond recollections of 53 years..." with photo of Lake.
Rudin # SL-6
1929
Simon Lake
Addressee: Daughter
Writer's location: New York
Box 1 Folder 5
ALS
Pages: 1
Rudin # SL-7
February 11, 1938
Simon Lake
Box 1 Folder 6
ADS
Pages: 1
On Lakeolith letterhead, transferring ownership of household furniture to a daughter at the family's Milford, Connecticut home. Also signed by son and other daughter.
Rudin # SL-8
November 14, 1940
Simon Lake
Addressee: Elwood Ford, grandson
Writer's location: Milford, CT.
Box 1 Folder 7
ALS
Pages: 2
In pencil, with envelope bearing signature.
Rudin # SL-9
June 17, 1944
Simon Lake
Addressee: Elwood Ford, grandson
Box 1 Folder 8
ALS
Pages: 1
To grandson at an Army Air Corps base in Gulfport, on Lake Submarine Co. letterhead.
Rudin # SL-10
May 1, 1944
Ford, Elwood
Addressee: Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ford
Box 1 Folder 9
ALS
Pages: 1
Includes photo of Ford.
Rudin # SL-11
December 20, 1938
Simon Lake
Addressee: Lawrence Dale Coleman
Box 1 Folder 10
TLS
Pages: 1
Asks for names of museums in Venezuela in the event a planned submarine excursion finds materials of interest.
Rudin # A-137
February 19, 1901
Simon Lake Stock Certificate in Lake Submarine Co.
Box 1 Folder 11
Signed twice by Lake. 100 shares.
Rudin # SL-12
May 15, 1900
Stock certificate for the Lake Sub-Marine Company.
Box 1 Folder 12
Signed by Lake. Cancelled.
Rudin # SL-13
January 21, 1901
Capital stock certificate for five shares in the Lake Sub-Marine Company, made out to J.C. Lake and signed by Simon Lake.
Box 1 Folder 13
Rudin # A-133
August 6, 1915
Capital stock certificate for five shares in the Lake Sub-Marine Company, made out to E. Bunge and Co.
Box 1 Folder 14
Rudin # A-134
August 25, 1916
Stock certificate for the Lake Torpedo and Boat Company.
Rudin # SL-14
Box 1 Folder 15
Signed by Lake.
February 18, 1909
Invitation to Lake from Theodore Roosevelt for a reception at the White House.
Rudin # SL-15
Box 1 Folder 16
June 17
Original signed drawing of what appears to be a submarine.
Box 1 Folder 17
Rudin # A-135
March 7, 1914
Original signed drawing of Steam Cylinder for Submarine.
Box 1 Folder 18
Rudin # A-136
May, 1906
"In Defense of the Submarine" manuscript, by Simon Lake.
Box 1 Folder 33
"In Defense of the Submarine" as well as two other manuscripts, one extolling "unsinkable" ships and the other the virtues of the submarine.
Rudin # A-138
Photo of Lake
Box 1 Folder 19
Signed on verso "Simon Lake- Age 42"
Rudin # SL-16
Photo of Lake in his 60's
Box 1 Folder 20
Signed by Lake on verso in pencil "Simon Lake to Ma".
Rudin # SL-17
1898
Original photo of the Argonaut, Lake's first submarine, after being lengthened and made watertight.
Box 1 Folder 21
Appears in Lake's 1918 book "The Submarine in War and Peace", pages 182-183.
Rudin # SL-18
ca. 1942
Original photo of a model of "The Aluminaut", an aluminum cargo-carrying submarine, with Lake, Reynolds, and staff.
Box 1 Folder 22
Rudin # SL-22
Lake Torpedo and Boat Co. photo of USS S-49 prior to launch at Bridgeport.
Box 1 Folder 23
With Navy history of the submarine.
Rudin # SL-23
December 8, 1928
USS S-48
Box 1 Folder 24
With Navy history of the USS S-48 submarine.
Rudin # SL-24
1935
Five Generations Lake reunion.
Box 1 Folder 25
Rudin # SL-27
Four original photos of "The Protector"
Box 3 Folder 1
Rudin # SL-19
Original photo of "The Protector" after being renamed "The Osetr"
Mapcase
With entire Russian crew, their names penned on lower mount.
Rudin # SL-20
USS S-47
Box 3 Folder 2

Rudin # SL-25
"The Future of the Submarine", printed presentation by Lake to Optimist Club of Philadelphia
Box 1 Folder 26
Rudin # SL-28
March, April 1920
The Lake Periscope
Box 2 Folder 3
Company magazine of Lake Torpedo Boat Co., including visit by Pershing to factory.
Rudin # SL-32
1907
"Sage Submarine Vessels and the Future of the Art"
Box 2 Folder 4
Pamphlet by Lake, illustrated.
Rudin # SL-33
1920
"Recovering Natural Products of the Sea"
Box 2 Folder 5
Pamphlet, bears the name of Submarine and Exploration Co.
Rudin # SL-34
n.d.
Pamphlet, "Fortunes Under the Sea", by Simon Lake.
Box 1 Folder 27
Rudin # SL-35
July 1900
Pamphlet, "The Argonaut: Her Evolution and History", by Simon Lake
Box 1 Folder 28
Rudin # SL-36
n.d.
Pamphlet, "The Development of the Lake Type Submarine Torpedo Boats". Two copies
Box 1 Folder 29
Rudin # SL-37, A-132
n.d.
Pamphlet, "Captain Simon Lake, Inventor of the Submarine, has Perfected Equipment to Salvage Fortunes Now Under the Sea".
Box 1 Folder 30
Rudin # SL-38
November 7, 1964
Pamphlet, "Commissioning of United States Ship Simon Lake (AS-33)". Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
Box 1 Folder 31
48 pages with photo of ship.
Rudin # SL-39
1918
"Modern Submarines in War and Peace"
Box 2 Folder 6
Reprint.
Rudin # SL-40
May, 1906
"The Submarine Versus the Submersible", by Simon Lake.
Box 1 Folder 32
Rudin # SL-41
1898, 1915
Three copies of "Scientific American"
Box 3 Folder 3
Article on the Argonaut, other articles by Lake with illustrations.
Rudin # SL-29-31
Illustration from "Recovering Natural Products from the Sea"
Box 3 Folder 4
Rudin # SL-34

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Books on Simon Lake and the Submarine.