Authors of Books about Shipwrecks:
Great Lakes Shipwrecks Authors:
Dana Thomas Bowen
Dwight Boyer
Frederick Stonehouse
Great Lakes Shipwreck Research and Researchers:
Brendon Baillod's Great Lakes Shipwreck Research: (very good) http://www.ship-wrecks.net/shipwreck/index.jsp
http://www.ship-wrecks.net/shipwreck/BookStore/booktable.html (List of books by Brendon Baillod)
Databases of Great Lakes Shipwrecks compiled by Brendon Baillod:
http://www.ship-wrecks.net/shipwreck/databases.jsp
David Swazey's Website on Great Lakes Ship Wrecks:
http://greatlakeshistory.homestead.com/temp.html
Swazey's database offered in a different format by Brendon Baillod:
http://www.ship-wreck.com/shipwreck/swayze/
The Jensen Collection at the Chicago Historical Library:
Wisewiki page: http://wisewiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Jensen+Shipwreck+Collection
Chicago Sun-Times, July 28, 1995 | Celeste Busk | Copyright
"... Scuba divers and others interested in Lake Michigan history can find a windfall of information about area shipwrecks at the Chicago Historical Society. The J. Norman Jensen Collection contains about 8,500 file cards on lake and river disasters from 1679 to 1947."
The Runge Collection, now called the Great Lakes Ship Files, created by the Milwaukee Public Library: http://www.mpl.org/File/hum_marine_shipfile.htm
These were on handwritten cards, similarly to what the Jensen Collection is on. and may somehow be related to the Jensen Collection, which 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.
Great Lakes Maritime History Website:
http://linkstothepast.com/marine/index.php