tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33552879515075916672023-11-16T05:57:13.575-08:00News From the CollectionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-67516803285399793472016-09-28T13:28:00.001-07:002016-09-28T13:28:09.282-07:00A New Look at Greenmanville<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With the opening of the new Thompson Exhibition Building at Mystic Seaport, a new era in exhibiting has certainly dawned on the Museum. The 5,000 square foot exhibition space will play host to some extraordinary displays for years to come. However, the gallery space is currently a blank slate waiting for its first installation. In the meantime, new Senior VP for Curatorial Affairs, Nicholas Bell, worked closely with the Exhibitions and Collections Departments to make a bit of a splash in two areas of the new building. The first is in the lobby where a 59-foot-wide mural by artist Nikki McClure graces the space above the entry to the new Collins Gallery. The second, pictured below, is located in the new Masin Conference Room, overlooking the Mystic River and is an exceptional photographic panorama of Greenmanville, the area of Mystic in which Mystic Seaport is found. </span><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Greenmanville</i>. Photo by Everett Scholfield in collection of MSM.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This picture was taken by a gentleman named Everett Augustus Scholfield, a photographer from Mystic, CT in business from 1865 to 1913. By the time this picture was taken in 1874, Scholfield was a well-established photographer in the area, specializing in portraiture, landscapes, architecture and maritime vessels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Scholfield was innovative and artistic and used various processes to produce his images over time. The image above was made from a large glass negative in the collection of the Museum. The negative was produced using the collodion process, a method that had many advantages including being able to produce multiple images from the same negative, unlike a daguerreotype. The detail achieved through the use of this process, and the extended exposure time, is quite impressive. The absence of people in the photograph is explained by that exposure time. In a few areas, "ghosts" can be seen as people move in and out of camera view while the glass plate is being exposed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Achieving a "clean" picture to print in such a large format was achieved through the magic of Photoshop and the diligence of one of our photographers, Joe Michael, removing every imperfection in the plate that has deteriorated over time. It is a nice touch to ring in the new with a reflection of the past.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-74491320044703026462016-07-29T04:27:00.000-07:002016-07-29T04:32:33.562-07:00Female Slavers. A Prize Article Winner.Each year, the Fellows of the G.W. Blunt White bestow a prize upon the author of the best article written in <u><a href="http://ijms.nmdl.org/" target="_blank">CORIOLIS: the Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies</a>.</u> This $1,000 prize is named in memory of the former Director of the library and head of publications, Gerald E. Morris. The Morris prize this year was given to Maria Vann for her article in the Volume 5, Number 1, 2015 issue entitled <b>Sirens of the Sea: Female Slave Ship Owners of the Atlantic World, 1650-1870.</b><br />
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A graduate of the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, Ms. Vann is currently the Director of the Marine Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts.<br />
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Ms. Vann notes that throughout the active years of the transatlantic slave trade, some European and American women gained economic and social influence by involvement as participants in the slave trade. They challenge the dominant narrative that the slave trade was practiced exclusively by white men. Her article focuses on female slave traders from Britain and American colonies during the period of 1650-1760, with a concentration on New York, the former Dutch colony that fell under English rule after 1764.<br />
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Her research is largely based on review of the <u>Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database</u>, slave ship records, newspapers, journals, court records and diaries. Sources were evaluated with intentional focus on women who were previously overlooked. The existence during the early years of the transatlantic trade challenges common notions about both gender and the slave trade and additionally raises important questions about the role of women slavers in other times and places.<br />
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A fascinating study, this article is a well-deserving winner of the Morris Prize Article Contest.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-54371222971916099962016-06-29T13:31:00.001-07:002016-06-29T13:31:18.895-07:00The Art of the Sea (and Harbors) <u>The Little Sea Torch,</u> published in London in 1801, was a translation of a French book of sailing directions entitled <u>Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer</u>. The author of the translation, John Thomas Serres, was the son of marine artist Dominic Serres and a very accomplished marine artist in his own right.<br />
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Serres the younger dedicated the volume to The Right Honorable Earl Spencer, then the First Lord of the Admiralty and one of a number of influential patrons he would have, including both HRH King George III as well as his son the Duke of Clarence. The book, as can be seen from the title page, described the coastal waters and ports of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean region. In addition to the text, Serres illustrated many of the ports in multiple views. Below are just two illustrations among many, these showing a view of the harbor of Naples along with a chart of the Bay of Naples, both executed by Serres.</div>
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This book in the collection of the G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport is just one of many illustrated works on charts, maps and sailing directions, some dating to the mid-17th century. We are fortunate to have had our own patrons over the years to donate such items to our collection and we look forward to adding more such treasures in the future for use by the many researchers who make their way to our collections.</div>
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a logbook of the Boston ship IDA from 1821 to 1823. The IDA was built in
Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1816, and at 115 feet in length and 28 in breadth,
she was almost the exact size of the Museum’s own CHARLES W. MORGAN. The
following events in Valparaiso, Chile in November of 1822 were the last recorded for
the ship, except for a note in the back saying the ship was sold in March of
1823. The customs house in Boston lists the documents for the ship as being
returned after the vessel was sold in Buenos Aires in November of 1823. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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towards the Northwest Coast beginning in 1821, the IDA was standing a mile or so off of Valparaiso
on the 20th of November 1822, when : "At 11 P.M. We was suddenly alarmed
by a violent shock that effected the ship as if she had struck the bottom, all
hands sprung on deck and cried out the ship ashore, we tried the pumps and hove
the deep sea lead, found no water in the ship, nor bottom with 50 fathoms of
line, it so much resembled a ship drawing over a coral bank that I was induced
to heave the lead, but on reflection knew it was impossible for her to have
struck any bottom in so heavy a sea as was on at the time without bilging the
bottom in. I then thought of a wreck of a vessel but lastly I imputed it to an
earth quake." Prior to the earthquake, on November 18, the captain had
sent a boat ashore at the mouth of the River Maipo at San Antonio, and with
much relief brought the boat back aboard
on November 22. "They got on board and informed us that there had been a
heavy shock of an earth quake on shore and that Valparaiso had been nearly </span>destroyed
and had lost 23 lives in the fall of a Castle. St. Jago & several of the towns in the
interior had suffered severely the inhabitants about the sea coast fled to the
mountains for safety fearing that the sea would flow in upon them, animals of
every kind on shore appeared to be affected by the shock."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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British naval officer residing in Valparaiso during 1822 wrote of the same earthquake
and its stressful effects on animals as well in her published journal<i>. </i></span><em><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; padding: 0in;">“The house received
a violent shock, with a noise like the explosion of a mine. I sat still; and
Mr. Bennet, starting up, ran out, exclaiming, “An earthquake, an earthquake! For
God’s sake follow me!”…The vibration still increasing, the chimneys fell, and I
saw the walls of the house fall open.” She continued, “The motion of the earth
changed from a quick vibration to a rolling like that of a ship at sea.” As to
the animals, “Amid the noise of the destruction before and around us, I heard
the lowings of the cattle all the night through; and I heard, too, the
screamings of the sea-fowl, which ceased not until the morning.”<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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one of a number of major earthquakes in the same exact area over the last 200
years, there are few recollections in English of the quake, so this particular
view by a sea captain may very well be unique. <o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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Chile is regularly wracked by earthquakes and has seen some of the strongest in
history. Thirteen years after the earthquake described above, another earthquake
to the south of Valparaiso in Chile was described by Charles Darwin. He arrived
in Talcahuano about two weeks after the earthquake and visited Concepcion, the
site of the quake. The chart of Valparaiso Bay below was surveyed and drawn by officers of H.M.S.
BEAGLE at that time in 1835.</span></span></em><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-31285348755993129662016-04-29T13:12:00.001-07:002016-05-02T10:22:13.965-07:00Photo Gramma What??<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No,
this has nothing to do with sweet ol’ granny sitting for her family portrait.
Rather it has everything to do with taking advantage of new technologies in
imaging to give virtual (and actual) visitors a more complete view of an object
than they could get seeing it laying in a traditional museum display
case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the term. Photogrammetry is a photographic technique used in measuring
distances with cameras, oftentimes for aerial maps and the like, but many museums are using
the process (in concert with other scanning procedures) to create visual
virtual 3-D models of objects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you click on the above image it will take you to a 3-D model created by the Rhode
Island company named <u>The </u><a href="http://www.thedigitalark.com/" target="_blank">Digital Ark</a>. The Digital Ark did some tests using a photogrammetric
method to create the image you see. They used well over two hundred images of
the piece of scrimshaw and stitched them together with software to make a 3-D
version of the tooth that can be spun in space and viewed from all sides,
giving us the opportunity to display things in an entirely new fashion.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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the tooth in full screen mode by clicking on the two diagonal arrows. Rotate it
in space by manipulating the image with your computer mouse or touchpad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Given to the Museum in 1941 by trustee and collector H.H. Kynett, the
tooth in question has on one side patriotic symbols including an American
eagle, a shield and cannons with the motto "E Pluribus Unum" and some
stylized roses. The other side has an anchor, a 3-masted ship with guns, and a banner
displaying the words "Success to our Navy."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
we are just in the test stages of working with this time-consuming process and technology,
we feel it offers tremendous opportunities to show visitors many different
types of objects in their entirety that they would not otherwise be able to
experience. Wish us luck!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-73487433583485158452016-03-30T10:12:00.002-07:002016-04-07T20:46:17.485-07:00Music Anyone?<div class="MsoNormal">
Growing up in a small town and attending a two-room
schoolhouse as a child, I was fortunate to have some interesting, and
interested, teachers. One such was an older woman born a decade or so before
World War I who, along with teaching English, Math, Spelling and Geography, inspired
her pint-sized students with her avid interest in music. Having obviously
learned her repertoire at her parents’ knees, she animatedly played the piano
to accompany her singing of a host of songs from the Gay ‘90’s. All of which we
learned as well (and sing to this day). Our Miss Gliha would have loved the
collection of sheet music housed in the Collections Research Center at Mystic
Seaport.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are over 1,500 pieces of sheet music at Mystic
Seaport, ranging in date from the War of 1812’s <u>The Fearless Tar</u> to the <u>Little
Mermaid </u>TV series in 1993. Most have been collected for their nautical content,
either in the lyrics of the song or the content of the illustrations on the
cover or both. Shown here are a few representations of themes included in the
collection. <o:p></o:p>Click on the images to get a better view.</div>
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The <u>Three Bells Polka</u> was written in honor of Capt.
Creighton of the Glasgow Ship THREE BELLS. In 1854, the THREE BELLS was one of
three ships that rescued 500 passengers from the steamer SAN FRANCISCO.
Unfortunately, another 200 passengers were lost. Creighton received a medal and
$7,500 in cash from the U. S. Government for his efforts in rescuing the people
that he managed to take aboard. A polka seems an odd musical form to
commemorate such an incident, but Capt. Creighton (or at least his remembrance on paper) now lives on in the museum’s temperature
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Music for <u>Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat</u> was written by
William Jerome and Jean Schwartz, popular collaborators in the 1900’s and 1910’s.
The song title, best known for the song of the same name in the Broadway
musical, <b>Guys and Dolls,</b> is a completely different song, except for the refrain
“Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down you’re rocking the boat!” The
1913 version seen here has to do with a young woman fending off the advances of
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A very colorful cover appears on the music for <u>The Ship I Love</u>,
written in 1893 by Felix McGlennon and, as can be seen on the cover, “Sung with
immense success by Tom Costello.” The heroic Captain intones from the deck of
his sinking ship, “I’ll stick to the ship lads, you save your lives, I’ve no
one to love me, you’ve children and wives.”
He finishes the chorus with “But I’ll go down in the angry deep, with
the ship I love.”</div>
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The number of pieces in the collection attests to the
popularity over time of sea-related emotions to either tug at the heart strings
of the public, or to entertain them with the farce and silliness. Either way,
we have been diligently scanning the collection and hope to have it online in
the near future if you wish to try your hand at playing and singing such greats
as <u>The Midshipman’s Farewell</u> or <u>The Mermaid’s Cave</u>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-26315808804270210432016-02-28T06:57:00.000-08:002016-02-28T06:57:41.291-08:00A Tale of Two LaunchingsA recent inquiry into the life of Massachusetts mariner Isaac Hinckley once again brought to light his charming watercolor of the launch of his first command, the Brig REAPER. The REAPER was built by Thatcher Magoun in Medford, Massachusetts in 1808. Hinckley, at the ripe old age of 25, became her master and part owner. Hinckley says of the painting, "An attempt to show the Brig Reaper as she appeared on the stocks at Medford-but it is past my Art; therefore here I leave it- Launching Day-." The painting is part of Manuscript Collection 184, the Isaac Hinckley Papers, at Mystic Seaport. From the written description of the collection: "<span style="background-color: white;">Isaac Hinckley, born in 1783, was a shipmaster from Hingham, Massachusetts who had gone to sea as a young boy, and acquired his first command at an early age. These papers indicate that during the years 1809-1810 he was master of the brig REAPER for a trading voyage from Boston to Aden and Calcutta. He was then master of the ship TARTER, 1812-1813, for another voyage to Calcutta, and then commanded the ship CANTON for three voyages from Boston to Canton, China between 1815-1818. It was during the homeward passage of this last voyage that Issac Hinckley died (58 days out of Macao), leaving a widow in Hingham and six children, 2 to 11 years of age." Hinckley was 35 years of age at the time.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Launch of Brig REAPER, 1808, by Isaac Hinckley. <br />Manuscript Collection 184, G.W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport.</td></tr>
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<br />Thirty-three years later, in 1841, and again 205 years later, in 2013, another ship was launched. The site of the first launch was also in Massachusetts. The CHARLES W. MORGAN, now the last remaining wooden whaleship, must have looked very similar to the REAPER as she slipped into the water at the shipyard of the brothers Zacharia and Jethro Hillman in New Bedford. Then, in 2013, under the watchful eyes of many hundreds of attendees, she gently dipped her hull into the waters of the Mystic River to commemorate her arduous and successful restoration. This ceremony was the culmination of years of planning and hard work and the preamble to a successful voyage the following year that would see the last of the New England whaling fleet make a peaceful visit to the whaling grounds off Massachusetts. The painting below by celebrated marine artist Geoff Hunt captured the excitment of the moment on July 21, 2013.<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Launching of the CHARLES W. MORGAN, by Geoff Hunt.<br />Mystic Seaport accession number 2014.54</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-70657810493759862052016-01-21T12:22:00.000-08:002016-01-21T12:22:01.575-08:00A Whaling Odyssey<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For
the last five years or so, Mystic Seaport has been the temporary home for one
of the most amazing murals ever painted. When Benjamin Russell and Caleb
Purrington finished their masterpiece in the late 1840’s, the result, known as
the <i><b>Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World</b></i>, was celebrated as a
realistic depiction of the whaleman’s life in pursuit of the leviathan. Just
recently, Mystic Seaport staff members assisted New Bedford staff in removing
the second of seven rolls from our Collections Research Center for its trip
back to New Bedford where it will undergo long-anticipated conservation work.
The first roll was retrieved last year and the first phase of its conservation
is nearing an end in public view at New Bedford under the watchful eye of the half-
scale whaling bark LAGODA. This oversized painting stands nearly eight and one half
feet tall and if opened up to its full length it would stretch for approximately
a quarter of a mile. It may very well be the longest painting in the world. When it was completed it was displayed in New
Bedford and then went on a tour throughout the United States. Each roll stood
vertically on a spindle on a stage with a take-up reel positioned some feet
away. As the panels stretched and rolled between the two spindles, a narrator
would describe to the seated viewers just what it was they were observing as they vicariously
traveled around the world on a whaleship. You can learn more about the panorama
and view a video production about it at the following link. <a href="http://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/collections/panorama" target="_blank">Panorama History.</a> Mystic Seaport is happy to have been of service to our fellow maritime museum while they endeavored to raise funds for the conservation work.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mystic Seaport and New Bedford Personnel, along with visitors from the Cape Verde Islands, <br />readying a section of the panorama for travel.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">New Bedford Whaling Museum Historian Mike Dyer examining <br />the first roll in the Collections Research Center.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-65222849514912786412015-12-21T12:56:00.000-08:002015-12-21T12:57:08.583-08:00A Hero's Award<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On March 12<sup>th</sup>, 1904, Andrew Carnegie signed a Deed
of Trust in New York City to create the Carnegie Hero Fund to recognize deeds
of civilian heroism. Carnegie was inspired by a mine accident near Pittsburgh to
create this fund with a beginning corpus of five million dollars. One of the
stipulations in the deed of trust states, “A medal shall be given to the hero,
or widow, or next of kin, which shall recite the heroic deed it commemorates,
that descendants may know and be proud of their descent. The medal shall be
given for the heroic act, even if the doer be uninjured, and also a sum of
money if the Commission deem such gift desirable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A recent inquiry to
the Museum brought to light once again that there is a Carnegie Hero Medal in
the collection at Mystic Seaport. There are
countless acts of heroism associated with sea rescues over the years, and the
Museum has quite a number of lifesaving medals in its collection attesting to
that fact. However, the Carnegie Hero Commission was established expressly to
recognize such acts and the Commission must agree that the act recognized is
worthy, making this medal of particular interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“Woman Lashed to the Mast in Schooner Wreck,”</i>; <i>“Lashed in Rigging
Seven Hours, 15 Owe Lives to Brave Fishermen,”</i>; <i>“The Heroic Fishermen.” </i>These are
a few of the headlines in January of 1910 after the Captain, his wife and crew
of 12 (not 13 as reported) of the six-masted schooner MERTIE B. CROWLEY wrecked
on the south coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The captain of the CROWLEY sealed the
schooner’s fate when he mistook the Edgartown light for the Block Island light
and ran the vessel aground. Captain Levi Jackson and his crew of four of the
fishing sloop PRISCILLA set out from shore and managed to brave the storm and
the waves for 13 miles and then retrieve the imperiled group from the schooner using the sloop’s
dories before the CROWLEY completely broke up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on the front and the following appears on the back: "AWARDED TO LEVI
JACKSON WHO HELPED TO SAVE WILLIAM H. AND IDA M. HASKELL AND TWELVE OTHERS FROM DROWNING EDGARTOWN, MASS. JANUARY 23, 1910."</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-83678988864219243522015-11-30T13:20:00.002-08:002015-11-30T13:20:47.428-08:00Washington Irving and the U.S. Navy<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Quite a number of years ago the Museum was given a
collection of naval papers pertaining to the Newman family. <span style="background: white;">William D. Newman (ca. 1800-1844) and his
sons, Langford Howard Newman (1830-1866) and William Bogert Newman (1834-1912)
were all U.S. Navy officers. William met a tragic death in 1844, but his sons
went on to follow him into naval service. Last year a second gift of papers was
given to bolster the collection, adding new information about the family.
Additionally, the Museum was able to purchase a letter written by Washington
Irving in 1847asking New York Congressman Moses H. Grinnell to arrange an
appointment to midshipman for seventeen-year old Langford. Irving had
previously attained the same appointment from Grinnell for Langford’s father,
William. In a snippet from his letter to Grinnell, Irving points out the specifics
of the matter regarding William and his son:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His
[William’s] melancholy end you may recollect when in command of the UStates
Brig Bainbridge at MonteVideo. It is supposed he drowned himself from a too
morbid sensibility to his professional reputation; apprehending he might incur
popular reproach for his conduct in a transaction in which his superior officer
acquitted him of all blame. He left a
family with, I apprehend, but very moderate means; I heard there were, I
believe, three or four boys, who when I visited him some few years since
appeared to be in excellent training. I now come to the point of this long
story. It is to interest you in favor of
his eldest son, about seventeen years of age, apparently a very fine lad, who
had recently finished his studies and is bent upon a sea faring life. I have applied for a midshipmans appointment
for him; but as vacancies are rare and applications many, and as in nine months
he will be past the limits as to age (18 years) exacted in such appointments, I
fear his chance as to success is but small.<span style="background: white;">”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the letter from Langford to Irving requesting this action from the famous
author. Langford did indeed get appointed and served aboard a number of ships
before, during and just after the Civil War. Unfortunately, he died at an even younger
age than his father while in command of the U.S.S. NYACK while the ship was
patrolling the west coast of South America in 1866, protecting the interests of
Americans during Spain’s conflict with Peru and Chile over the Chincha Islands.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-90604535282184046562015-10-30T10:13:00.001-07:002015-10-30T10:13:19.407-07:00Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh Comes to Mystic Seaport<br />
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extraordinary small boat voyage that resulted are retold in William Bligh’s <u>A
Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship, Bounty and the subsequent
voyage of part of the crew in the ship’s boat from Tofoa, one of the friendly
islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies.</u> This account was
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open-boat voyage that covered over 3,500 nautical miles. Bligh’s narrative of
the voyage includes descriptions of the privations the crew endured, including
the difficulty of catching fish, necessitating the action described in this passage after about three weeks at
sea: “The weather was now serene, but unhappily we found ourselves unable to
bear the sun’s heat; many of us suffering a languor and faintness, which made
life indifferent. We were, however, so fortunate as to catch two boobies today;
their stomachs contained several flying-fish and small cuttlefish, all of which
I saved to be divided for dinner.” Yum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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,an ensuing book written by Bligh to relay in more detail the story of the overall
expedition of the Bounty and the mutiny, were recently donated to the G.W.
Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport as important parts of a larger gift.
These two rare examples add to the wealth of an already strong research collection
and will find a new, secure home for future researchers in maritime history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-73935139305287786552015-08-26T10:40:00.001-07:002015-08-26T10:40:06.231-07:00A Resource for Scholarship at Mystic Seaport<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
Each year, hundreds of researchers visit the G.W. Blunt White Library
in the Collections Research Center to take advantage of one of the finest
collections of primary and secondary materials relating to American maritime
history. Those that use the collection include historians, other scholars,
genealogists, artists, students, teachers, history hobbyists, commercial users
and more. Annually, a segment of academic users make their way to Mystic via
the <a href="http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/nerfc/index.php" target="_blank">New England Regional Fellowship Consortium</a>, of which the G.W. Blunt White
Library is a founding member. For over a decade, <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #262626; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-transform: uppercase;">NERFC</span><span style="color: #262626;">, a collaboration of 21
major cultural agencies, has been awarding fellowships to scholars. The
Consortium will offer at least 15 awards in 2016–2017, and each grant will
provide a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at
participating institutions. Awards are open to U.S. citizens and foreign
nationals who hold the necessary U.S. government documents. Grants are designed
to encourage projects that draw on the resources of several agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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visit, the Library in 2015. Along with their name and affiliation, each fellow
has provided a short description of their project. We are honored to have such
qualified individuals take advantage of the broad collections available at
Mystic Seaport. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cynthia</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Bouton,</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Texas A & M Univ.- <u>Subsistence, Society, Commerce, and
Culture in the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution</u> - The era of
Atlantic Revolutions witnessed an acceleration in the circulation and
commodification of subsistence foods, and reorganized social and political
links in provisioning chains. Revolutionary debates politicized property,
production, distribution, and consumption in historically specific ways. This
book project studies staple food production, marketplace interaction, entangled
trade networks, government policies, and consumer practices to understand
shifting food regimes in the international Atlantic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dan
Du</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,
Univ. of Georgia– <u>This </u></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">World in a Teacup: Sino-American Tea Trade in
the Nineteenth Century</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> -The Sino-American tea trade during the nineteenth century was a
crucial element in Chinese-American relations and the economic transformation
of global capitalism. Tea, as a key staple in the international market and one
of the largest imports into the United States, illuminates multilateral
economic and cultural connections and clashes among the U.S., China, Great
Britain, Japan, and India. This project will explore the influence of the tea
trade on American material culture. Embargo of tea during the Revolution
sparked patriotism in American towns, but historians of the republic consigned
tea consumption to oblivion. However, it remained prevalent. It witnessed the
making of American cultural, national identity, particularly when compared with
English and Chinese tea culture. Furthermore, since consumption allowed
capitalism to shape social relations and instill its spirit among ordinary
people, tea consumption, which was promoted by marketing and advertising,
crystallized the ethos of the nineteenth-century society dissected by class,
gender, and race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Edwards</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, Princeton Univ. - <u>Money and the American Revolution</u>- Andrew’s
research concerns two events, one well known, the other relatively obscure: the
American Revolution and the currency revolution in American money. Over
the course of the Revolutionary War, money in American conception and practice
changed from measure to metal. This transition, from a ‘unit of account’ to a
commodity currency, defined in terms of gold and silver, has long typically
gone unremarked under the assumption - shared by many historians - that money
is neutral in American political history and that such development is part of
the natural course of things, if not entirely uncontested. It is Andrew’s
intention to challenge this assumption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lasdow</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, Columbia Univ. – <u>“Spirit
of Improvement”: Construction, Conflict, and Community in Early-National Port
Cities </u>– From 1789 to 1830, budding
capitalists advanced a vision for American cities that placed ports at the
center of promise and prosperity. But Americans across the social spectrum
disagreed over the designs and material realities of port construction. Some
city dwellers questioned whether these projects were truly “improvements” at
all, arguing they infringed on the property rights of small land- and
wharf-owners<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>and displaced
entire neighborhoods. Some residents turned to lawsuits, mob violence, and the
destruction of building sites to halt impending construction. This dissertation
examines this dialectic between capitalist urban planning and community
response in early-nineteenth-century American port cities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gregory
Rosenthal</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, SUNY Stony Brook – <u>Hawaiians </u></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">who left Hawaiʻi: Work,
Body, and Environment in the Pacific World, 1786-1876-</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> For decades, historians
have written of the Atlantic World as an historical arena of transoceanic
exchange and the circulation of people, goods, and ideas among African,
European, and American actors. But only recently have historians begun to use
the same tools to reconstruct histories of other transoceanic spaces, such as
the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Gregory’s project contributes to the
study of the nineteenth-century Pacific World by focusing on the paths traveled
within and beyond Hawaiʻi by Native Hawaiian wage workers in the transoceanic
economy. For nearly a century, from the 1780s to the 1870s, Hawaiian men
labored in extractive industries all across the Pacific, from China to Hawaiʻi
to California and on ships at sea. Hawaiian workers extracted sea otter furs,
sandalwood, bird guano, whale oil, cattle hides, gold, and other commodities.
All of these trades were of global economic significance in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries. By placing Hawaiian working-class actors at the
center of nineteenth-century Pacific history, Gregory argues that the movement
and mobility of Hawaiians across the ocean in search of work was a key
component of trans-Pacific integration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-30921967257365848222015-07-31T11:35:00.002-07:002015-07-31T11:35:33.840-07:00A Fish Story: New Painting for Mystic Seaport<div class="MsoNormal">
A painting entitled “Off Block Island” by Ellery Thompson is
a recent gift to the collections at Mystic Seaport. Thompson was a local
fisherman, author, artist and raconteur of some note. His story-telling ability
landed him in the <u>New Yorker</u> in 1947, subject of a profile by writer Joseph
Mitchell. Afterwards, Thompson went on to write his own books about life as a
Connecticut fisherman. <u>Draggerman’s
Haul: the Personal History of a Connecticut Fishing Captain</u> and <u>Come
Aboard the Draggers</u>, were published in the 1950’s when Thompson was in his
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Ellery Thompson painted hundreds of pictures in a primitive style and many of these made
their way into friends’ homes and not a few into local museums and historical
societies. Mystic Seaport is glad to have a number of his works. Mystic
Seaport owns a western-rigged dragger named <a href="http://www.mysticseaport.org/locations/vessels/florence/" target="_blank">FLORENCE</a>, and one of the boats seen
here is purported to be her. Thompson was born in 1899 and died in 1986, but his
character lives on in his books, some oral histories and, of course, his
brightly-colored paintings depicting scenes from his life experiences.<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-5257113118127741372015-06-29T07:08:00.003-07:002015-06-29T07:08:52.450-07:00H.M.S. BURFORD Puts into Safe Harbor<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Naval historian William Laird Clowes once called it one of the finest models of
its type ever built. The model at Mystic Seaport was acquired
in 1973 and has been one of the premier objects in the collection ever since.
H.M.S. BURFORD was a 70-gun, 3<sup>rd</sup> rate ship of the British Navy built
in 1722. One of her commanding officers was Admiral Edmund Vernon, after whom
Mt. Vernon is named. While there is some question as to the date the model was
built, it was certainly done in the first half of the 18<sup>th</sup> century,
if not in 1722. It came into Admiral Vernon’s possession and stayed in his
family until it was purchased at auction in London in 1929 by Junius Morgan,
grandson of J.P. Morgan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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magnificent model has a white bottom, varnish topsides and a black boot stripe.
She has 4 anchors and 68 gun positions with two full gun decks, a square bow,
lateen mizzen, and a two-level poop deck. There is a lion's head painted on the
inside surface of each of the gunpost covers. Her poop-deck railing has a
painted scene of nudes in grass on a blue background. Two quarter galleries,
one stern walk, a painted decorative strip and two gunports below her lower
windows on the stern also grace this model. An elaborate carving on her stern
shows a bust of a king at the center framed by two gods, with a lion on each
side with Neptune. Her figurehead is a crowned lion and the model is mounted on
a mahogany veneer stand with 2 metal braces amidships. One can easily spend an
hour picking out all the details her model makers put into her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last month the BURFORD was a part of our Treasures from the Collections Exhibit
in the R. J. Schaefer Building. With the advent of the new Ships, Clocks and
Stars Exhibit coming this Fall, the model was moved back to the Collections
Research Center, a nice safe harbor, until she next goes on display. A delicate job, she was moved
from the exhibit to the CRC by our Collections Manager Chris White, our Curator
of Collections seen here, Fred Calabretta, and a number of other Museum staff. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-81163382513256492592015-05-16T12:11:00.000-07:002015-05-16T12:12:32.045-07:00The MAYFLOWER in LilliputWith the departure of MAYFLOWER II from Mystic Seaport in May, 2015, the Museum will not be left without any Pilgrim representation. The Museum owns a number of MAYFLOWER models and one, a model of Lilliputian proportions, was donated to the Museum in 1952 by its maker, Henry R. Stiles of New London. Mr. Stiles was born just after the Civil War and graduated from Yale in 1888. His career was that of an optical surgeon and he spent a number of years as such in the U.S. Army. He retired with a disability acquired in the line of duty with the rank of Major in 1905 but was eventually lifted to the rank of Lt. Colonel. He donated seven of his creations to Mystic Seaport in 1952 when he was 86 years old. Using his exacting skills and surgical tools, Col. Stiles spent many hours creating miniature models of sloops, schooners, brigs, sampans and more. The 5 3/8 inch MAYFLOWER alone took Col. Stiles more than 615 hours by the time he completed it in 1939. The scale of the MAYFLOWER model is 1 inch to 22.5 feet and her rigging blocks are so small that their details cannot be seen with the naked eye.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Model of MAYFLOWER. Henry R. Stiles, 1939. <br />
Mystic Seaport accession number 1952.1573<br />
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A long-time trustee of Mystic Seaport noted that in the early 1950's this model was one of the first things that was seen as you entered into what was then the Museum's main exhibit building. See the changes coming to Mystic Seaport in the form of the <a href="http://www.mysticseaport.org/gallery-quad/" target="_blank">Thompson Exhibition Building and the McGraw Gallery Quadrangle</a>, giving the Museum substantially more exhibit space than could have even been dreamt about in 1952.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-20738344717442368452015-04-29T08:43:00.003-07:002015-04-29T11:41:26.072-07:00Remembering Gallipoli<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One hundred years ago the invasion of Gallipoli, conceived by Winston Churchill, began and became one of the low points of World War I for the Allies. When Allied troops landed on the beach at Gallipoli on April 25<sup>th</sup>,
1915 a small British minesweeper, a converted Great Eastern Railway channel
packet named the CLACTON, was at the forefront of the action. The image here
depicts that day’s deadly action in a fanciful sketchbook/diary kept by CLACTON’s commander, William Herbert Coates. Coates seemingly coped with the
exigencies of war by depicting daily action and activities in his version of early
English language and images. His minesweeper, used primarily for hauling cargo
and troops while in this conflict, was portrayed as a 17<sup>th</sup> or 18<sup>th </sup>
century brig. The day’s date, “ye yeere 1915, April ye 25<sup>th,</sup>” can be
seen in the lower right hand corner of the drawing. Click on the image to see the enlarged version.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From sketchbook by W.H. Coates. VFM 970. G.W Blunt White Library. Mystic Seaport</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In his description of the day, Coates states, “Ye littel brigs, ye “NEWMARKET”
& ye “CLACTON” closed in to land ye souldiers ____ while ye greate shyppes,
ye “ALBION” & ye “CORNWALLIS”, with their gunnes at point blank range,
turned EARTH into HELL. Miseracordia
twas ye dreadfulle daie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Coates, who was in his fifties when in command of the CLACTON, had
written two books in his earlier life on shipping and trade on the Indian ocean.
Unfortunately, he did not live to write another as he was killed in action on
July 15, 1917 when HMS REDBREAST was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The image is one page of many from scrapbooks in the Manuscripts Collection in the G.W. Blunt White Library. See the article from the <a href="http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol064sm.html" target="_blank">South African Military History Journa</a>l for an interesting account of Gallipoli and the part that the CLACTON played in
the invasion.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-28009132602963160532015-03-31T07:37:00.000-07:002015-03-31T08:22:17.548-07:00Ships Plans and the Environment:the Coast Guard Makes Use of a Unique Collection<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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the call came into the shipyard at Mystic Seaport on February 26, 2015 the
feeling was initially that it was a crank call. Why would the Coast Guard in
San Diego be calling Mystic Seaport for help regarding a boat washed ashore
after a storm in California? Once the story was told it began to make a bit
more sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sea-going motor yacht, the MONA MONA, grounded in the surf at a navy base in Coronado.
Fearing that the fuel tanks, which can carry up to 1,200 gallons, might be
breached, the Coast Guard sent in a team from their Incident Management
Division in the San Diego Sector. Marine Science Technician Petty Officer 3<sup>rd</sup>
class Eben Smith made a call to Nordhavn Yachts who build similar vessels, trying
to determine the location of the fuel tanks in the yacht. Unable to accommodate
MST3 Smith and his team with the proper technical information, they did the
next best thing. They directed him to Mystic Seaport!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The MONA MONA stranded on a beach in Coronado, California. <br />
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MONA MONA, built in 1972, was designed by Captain Robert Beebe, the progenitor
of the long-distance trawler cruising movement. MONA MONA was one of Beebe’s
early designs, meant for cruising in the Mediterranean, but with large enough
fuel tanks to make an Atlantic crossing.
However, the boat, built in Costa Mesa, began and ended its
life on the West Coast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mystic
Seaport maintains the archive of Captain Beebe’s plans, so when Eben Smith
called looking for the plans, our Library was able to quickly locate them,
photograph the critical portion (see image) and send it via text message to him
on site at the wreck. That was at 3:04 p.m. Eastern Time. AT 8:01 p.m., we
received a text from an enthusiastic Smith stating, “Just want to let you know
the schematics you provided helped remove over 400 gallons of fuel, without a
drop in the ocean! Thank you very much to everyone I spoke to over at Mystic
Seaport. You truly saved the day!” And while it is likely that such a capable
young man would have eventually figured out the problem without our help, it is
gratifying to know that Mystic Seaport was able to make his day a bit easier
and contribute in a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">meaningful way.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of plan showing starboard fuel tank of MONA MONA.<br />
Coll. 125, Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Mystic Seaport<br />
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fate of the MONA MONA, however, does not have a happy ending. A recent news report
mentioned that the boat’s owner and the U.S Navy had not yet determined what to
do with the double-decked 50-foot yacht and it was filling up with sand as it
sat on the beach. Late word from MST3 Smith, however, is that the yacht was demolished before it could deteriorate more in the surf. At least no petroleum from it will stain that stretch of
coast line thanks to the work of the Coast Guard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-64846465121211977592015-02-18T07:31:00.004-08:002015-02-18T11:14:07.232-08:00Cold and Dark...NYC, January 24, 1925The saying is usually, "If March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb..." Well, this February has certainly come in like a lion...and this icy picture of the tugboat LION from 1925 kind of says it all regarding how most of us feel about this winter. On January 24, 1925, Morris Rosenfeld was out with his camera and took this image of the New London Ship and Engine Company tug on the East River, capturing the ice-encrusted boat and the chilly atmosphere of the day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tug LION. <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.</span></span></td></tr>
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That same day, at about 9.a.m., Morris was taking another shot with his camera. The picture of the full solar eclipse below must have been taken somewhere above 90th Street in Manhattan or up into the Bronx, because that was where the eclipse became total. It was quite an event in New York with dozens of planes and even the Navy's largest dirigible, the LOS ANGELES, in the air to take photos of the rare happening. The 1925 eclipse was the last total one to be visible in a large U.S. metropolitan area, and Morris was able to get a number of shots in the short time that the birds were heading back to roost at such an odd time of the day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1925 Total Eclipse, New York City.</span> Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-54210399472236962182015-01-30T04:57:00.001-08:002015-01-30T04:57:06.706-08:00Conservation Work in the Greenmanville Church<div class="MsoNormal">
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picture of the elegant diners is from the Grace Line passenger steamer SANTA PAULA in the
1930’s. In the background is a large 14 by 8 foot painting of the ship W.R.
GRACE by Charles Robert Patterson which eventually came to the Museum in 1961
and has hung in the Aloha Meeting House (the Greenmanville Church) since that
time.</span></div>
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church, the painting has built up quite a layer of grime. Two conservators from
the Williamstown Art Conservation Center (at right) spent three days here in
the Fall putting a little sparkle back into the clipper ship by stripping off
some of the layers of dirt. The project was inspired by Bob Webb, a former
curator at the Kendall Whaling Museum and the Maine Maritime Museum and a
performer well-known in sea music circles. Bob passed away last year and one of
his wishes was to see the painting conserved since, in addition to his other
passions, Bob was also a writer and one of his books was a biography of Charles
Robert Patterson, the artist. To help fulfill his wish, Bob’s widow Helen has
been raising funds to help pay for the conservation work. Stop by and see if
the painting looks a little perkier to you. And give a nod of thanks to Bob for
helping to make it happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of the W.R. GRACE (MSM accession # 1961.302)</td></tr>
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the coast of California in the 1880’s. There were four “SANTA” ships built in
the 1930’s and each one had on board a painting done by Charles Robert
Patterson. There is one in the Maine Maritime Museum that went to them from the
W.R. Grace offices in Boca Raton in 1999. It is also a painting of the W.R.
GRACE and is entitled “Report Me All Well,” and that one was in the SANTA ELENA.
When the SANTA ELENA was turned into a troop ship, the painting came out and
was later trimmed down and repainted to fit in the W.R. Grace company offices. The
other two SANTA ships, the SANTA ROSA and the SANTA LUCIA, carried portraits of
the ship M.P. GRACE. The whereabouts of those two paintings is unknown. The one
in our church is considered the masterpiece of the four and the only one kept
in its original round-topped, half-moon configuration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-8264615847143461602014-12-23T05:17:00.001-08:002014-12-23T05:17:35.397-08:00This Badger Doesn't Bite<div class="MsoNormal">
When the five-masted schooner JENNIE R. DUBOIS was launched in
February of 1902, she became the largest vessel ever built on the Mystic River.
249 feet long and 2,237 tons, she was built by the Holmes Shipbuilding Company
and named for the wife of Rhode Island judge E.C. Dubois. She was built for the
lumber and coal-carrying trades and proved to be too large for the Mystic
River, having become stuck in the mud when she was launched. Hopefully the
owner of the $100,000 vessel carried enough insurance because the DUBOIS was
lost only a year and a half later in September of 1903 after being run down in the
fog near Block Island by a German steamship while carrying a load of coal. She
became a hazard to navigation and was dynamited to guarantee safe passage in
the area. Local historian Carol Kimball wrote a nice article for The Day in
2002 on the construction and demise of the DUBOIS. The schooner was rediscovered
104 years later in 2007 by a group of local divers and was once again in the
news.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This painting of the JENNIE R. DUBOIS is a recent gift to
the Museum and joins another painting of the DUBOIS in the Museum’s possession
(accession number 1957.10), both by the same artist, S.F.M. Badger. Solon
Francis Montecello Badger was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1873 and died as a relatively young man in 1919. Having studied under William
P. Stubbs in his youth, Badger’s style is very reminiscent of Stubbs’ work.
Mystic Seaport is very happy that the donors of the painting decided to keep it in the Mystic area where it will be truly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-86438288130375396552014-12-01T09:58:00.000-08:002014-12-01T13:56:54.575-08:00A Trip to Remember<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CHARLES W. MORGAN, and everyone associated with
her, had a hectic and momentous summer of 2014. When the MORGAN returned home to Mystic Seaport in August, it
was after a successful cruise that saw her sail to New London, Newport, Vineyard Haven, New
Bedford, Provincetown, Stellwagen Bank, Boston and the Cape Cod Canal. While
two of the most memorable events would be her historic return to her home port
of New Bedford and her sail on Stellwagen Bank where she sailed with whales for
the first time in nearly a hundred years, her passage to New London from Mystic
will be one remembered by thousands. As she left Mystic Seaport in mid-May and headed down
river through the town’s famous bascule bridge, local marine artist Russ Kramer
caught the moment in an ink drawing on an envelope which he then
had canceled at the local post office, commemorating the event in fine fashion.
Cheering throngs lined the river from Mystic to Noank before she headed out
into the Sound to make her way to New London for her final fitting out and sea
trials prior to heading off on her historic journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Russ Kramer is a well-known, talented
marine artist with a studio in Mystic. He is currently the president of the
American Society of Marine Artists. You can view some of his work at </span><a href="http://www.russkramer.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.russkramer.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.
His gift of the illustrated envelope is one of many MORGAN-related pieces that
have made their way to us in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-29890044574994819792014-10-24T06:33:00.000-07:002015-01-12T07:49:59.770-08:00The End of the Building, but not the Name<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
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father and son standing side by side engaged in a patriotic scene early in the
20<sup>th</sup> century that would have sold a boatload of war bonds in later
years. The father is William Porter White, a career navy man from Illinois who
entered the navy in 1874 at the age of 15, graduated from the Naval Academy, and served his country for the next
52 years, ending his stint as a Captain. The boy, George William Blunt White,
known to all as Blunt, is 10 years old in this picture taken in Chicago in
1905. Blunt would later serve in the U.S. Navy Aviation Corps in World War I and
then spend the next four decades as a successful businessman in the Mystic area.
Along the way he started sailing, eventually becoming the Commodore of the
Cruising Club of America. He also took an interest in the local Marine
Historical Society (Mystic Seaport), joining the Board in 1947 and serving as
the Vice President from 1955 until his death from a heart attack in 1962 while
doing what he loved. Sailing.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Porter White and son, G.W. Blunt White, 1905. MSM accession# 2002.20.23</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After Blunt’s passing, his good friend, Henry
DuPont, was instrumental in raising and donating funds to build the new library
at Mystic Seaport, which had been in planning since 1960. The Museum memorialized Blunt by naming it the G.W. Blunt White Library. Completed in 1964, the
Library's design and construction were overseen by Dr. Charles W. David. Dr. David was instrumental in bringing about a
transformation at Mystic Seaport through his scholarly endeavors and keen
understanding of institutional process. Prior to becoming Mystic Seaport's first professional librarian, Dr. David had been the Director of Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania. Henry DuPont had also contracted him to oversee the research library design, construction and staffing at the Hagley Museum and Library at Eleutherian Mills near Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. David's expertise in libraries and fund-raising was critical to the early development
of the G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport and the Library’s growth into
the successful operation that it is today. He helped lift the Museum and indeed
the field of maritime research and scholarship to a new level of esteem and
capacity.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketch of the original G.W. Blunt White Library.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the years the Library’s collection has grown
into the largest maritime research library of its kind in the country with its
broad collection of books, periodicals, manuscripts, ships plans, charts and
maps and more. When the Museum was considering expanding the Library building
in 2000 to house the ever-growing collection, a decision was made to reconsider
the expansion for a number of reasons. The two primary reasons centered on the
site of the building. First, the underpinnings of the granite-clad edifice were
suffering from the intrusion of both fresh and brackish water. The building had
been situated on a piece of land that not only suffered from having the
ground saturated due to high tides, but also had the unfortunate happenstance
of being located directly above an underground stream that magnified the watery
problem during rainstorms, causing and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">regular seepage into the basement of the
building. Mold and mildew became an insurmountable problem. Second, the site
overlooked prime real estate for future Museum expansion and any addition to
the Library needed to move in the direction of the river, thereby fragmenting
the space for future uses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The decision was made to finally move the Library
out of the deteriorating building in 2007. The collections and staff made the
journey across the street to the Collections Research Center in the Rossie Mill
after necessary monies were raised by friends and trustees to outfit a section
of the CRC for Library use. Today the G.W. Blunt White Library remains a major
center of maritime research and also acts as the gateway to the rest of the
collections at Mystic Seaport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Blunt’s legacy was carried on by his son, Bill,
another long-time, active member of the Museum’s Board, and Bill’s son, Blunt,
who also served his time as a trustee. It is sad to see the passing of an era
with the razing of the former library building, but the boy in the uniform will
continue to be remembered in the new G.W. Blunt White Library in the
Collections Research Center at Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the
Sea.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-1015199857704571702014-09-29T05:49:00.001-07:002014-10-01T13:21:30.074-07:00Cruise of a Connecticut Privateer....<div class="MsoNormal">
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French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years’ War, was purchased
recently by the Museum. Commanded by Jesse Denison, the sloop DOLPHIN of Stonington cruised local and Caribbean waters in search of both French and Spanish
prizes in 1762 and early 1763. Sanford Billings kept the logbook/journal that
details some of the encounters of the DOLPHIN. </span><br />
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Two weeks after the Treaty of
Paris was signed ending the war, the DOLPHIN’s crew (supposedly ignorant of the
pact), in company with the crew of two ships from Philadelphia and Virginia,
marched on a fort in Hispaniola:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The following day they learned of the truce and made sail for
home. As with so many other logbooks and journals, this one went on to have
another life recording such things as school attendance by local students,
accounts of goods bought and sold and Billings' family genealogy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-84236963215470286332014-08-27T10:42:00.001-07:002014-08-27T10:42:53.753-07:00A New C.W. MORGAN Painting<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When the whaleship CHARLES W. MORGAN was launched
again in Mystic in July 2013, 172 years after her original launching in New
Bedford, one of the world’s premier maritime artists was on hand to document
the event for Mystic Seaport. British artist Geoff Hunt, through the sponsorship
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamm, spent the day of the launch high atop the
stairway that had been used by visitors to ascend to the deck of the MORGAN
while she was being restored on the Museum’s shiplift which
had been rebuilt just prior to the MORGAN’s restoration project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While Geoff has gained a lot of notoriety for the
artwork he has produced for the covers of the Patrick O’Brian “Aubrey-Maturin”
novels, he has long been known in the maritime art world for his exceptional
depictions of, primarily, 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> century warships.
His research is impeccable and his skill remarkable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are happy to have the painting seen here as part
of the collection at Mystic Seaport. Even better, the Museum has also acquired
the watercolor sketch that Geoff produced as the draft for this painting. Now
that the MORGAN is home from her successful 38<sup>th</sup> voyage around New
England, we expect to see many more versions of her likeness both under sail
and in port.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355287951507591667.post-67243434750626495882014-06-30T13:23:00.001-07:002014-06-30T13:23:30.626-07:00The Selling Power of Patriotism: Clipper Ship Sailing Cards<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The image seen here seems appropriately patriotic
for our nation’s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">4</span><sup style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> of July celebration. EAGLE WING
was a 200 foot long clipper ship built in Boston in 1853. This card was an
advertisement used to attract business for the ship and its owners for passages
to the west coast, as the number of days listed indicates. A mere 106 and 117
days were two of the extremely fast trips she made to San Francisco. She sailed
at various times out of both Boston and New York.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Other clipper ship sailing cards can be seen
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The patriotic symbolism in this picture is not only
represented by the eagle, but also by the liberty pole it carries in its beak
as well as the liberty cap that surmounts the pole. Both the pole and the cap
represented freedom from tyranny. The use of the liberty cap supposedly dated
back to the assassination of Julius Caesar. The senators involved in the
killing held aloft a pole with the red cap, worn by freed slaves in Rome, to
indicate to the people of Rome that they were now free from Caesar’s tyrannical
rule. Some countries, especially the United States and France, adopted the
use of the cap as an icon of their political independence, and the U.S.
specifically made use of the liberty pole during the infancy of the revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EAGLE WING. From Collection 112, Manuscripts Collection, <br />G.W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport.</td></tr>
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