Jensen Shipwreck Collection

See also the Shipwrecks reference page: http://wisewiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Shipwrecks

The Jensen Shipwreck Collection is housed at the Chicago Historical Society, now known as the  Chicago Historical Museum. Abakanowicz Research Center : 1601 N Clark St., Chicago, IL 60614.  Summer Hours (May 27–August 29, 2025): Tuesday–Friday, 12:00–3:30 p.m

Title:  J. Norman Jensen Collection of Lake & River Disasters, 1679-1947.

Author/creator: 

Jensen, J. Norman.

Pub./Made: 

S.l. : J. Norman Jensen, 1947?

Physical Description: 

5 drawers of file cards.

Note: 

Also available on 4 reels of microfilm.

Subject - topic: 

Shipwrecks Great Lakes (North America)

Ship disasters Great Lakes (North America)

Availability from the Chicago Historical Museum

Call Number	Material Type	Copy	Status
G525 .J4 1947 MICROFILM	Library, book microfilm-use blue call slip	FM	Checked In
G525 .J4 1947 MICROFILM MASTER	Library, book microfilm master	FMM	Closed Stack
G525 .J4 1947 REFERENCE	Shelved in Research Center: monograph		Checked In

Google Search:

1. I searched Google for:  "Jensen collection" shipwrecks >> 387 results.  Many were of no value, but several of the first 10 results apparently referred to the Jensen collection I am trying to find, including the following Chicago Sun Times article in 1995. So I was not mistaken about the location or the name. The Runge Collection at the Milwaukee Public Library, also on handwritten cards is obviously as extensive, but a different collection. The Jensen Collection was about 10,000 4X6 cards at the Chicago Historical Library. I saw the stack of them, about two feet high or more when I went to that library many years ago, I think in the late 1980's or early 1990's.