A. Booth

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Fetch?	Row ID	Catalog #	Object Name	Title	Artist/Maker	Date Made	Place Made	Description	Full Image	CBMM Cat. Page
	1	1997.0065.0001.00	coats	Overcoat of ferry boat captain Daniel Higgins, Sr.		Circa 01/01/1940 -		Overcoat of ferry boat captain Daniel Higgins, Sr., who worked for the Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry Co., full length black coat with gold buttons, double breasted, 3 bands of trim at cuffs, label inside reads"A. Jacobs & Son, Baltimore", small chain for hanging sewn in at collar. Condition: Good, needs cleaning, no moth damage. Material: Wool, satin, metal. From original owner's son.		View
	2	8888.0052.0000.00	documents	CAPTAIN LEONARD S. TAWES MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION				CAPTAIN LEONARD S. TAWES - MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Biographical Background<CR> Captain Leonard S. Tawes was born in Accomack County, Virginia, on October 2, 1853. He died in Crisfield, Maryland, on December 6, 1932. He went to sea at an early age, worked his way up to master of sailing vessels, and continued actively to captain sailing vessels until 1922 when he retired from the sea to devote himself to oyster farming in the area around Crisfield. In his retirement, using his logs and other records, Tawes composed a series of journals covering his life and recounting his maritime experiences in detail. The journals, edited by Robert H. Burgess, called Coasting Captain, were published as a book by The Mariners Museum in 1967. This volume is an excellent companion to the manuscript collection and permits clarification of many of the entries found in the manuscripts themselves. In 1884 Captain Tawes took command of, and part ownership in the three-masted, 138-foot schooner City of Baltimore. The 356-gross ton schooner was built by Goss, Sawyer & Packard of Bath, Maine, and was launched on February 2, 1884. Tawes captained the City of Baltimore until 1904 when she was sold in Tampa, Florida (Coasting Captain, 146, 445-6). Most of the material in the manuscript collection relates to the period during which Tawes sailed the City of Baltimore.Scope and Content The collection consists of seven bound booklets and ledgers, and one folder containing various documents which were found in the ledgers when they were accessioned. Most of the material is financial and other operating records from the schooner City of Baltimore. Subject: Captain Leonard S Tawes	No image URL.	View
	3	8888.0044.0000	documents	Oystering Ephemera Collection				An artificial manuscript collection of materials relating to the oyster industry in the Chesapeake Bay there are 2 series in this collection from different sources.<br /><br />The Series 1 collection consists mostly of letterheads, billheads, price lists, trade cards, labels, and related items, including correspondence for a large number of oyster and seafood packing houses, some of which also dealt with fruit packing. Many of these companies were based in Baltimore, Maryland, but packers in Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut are also represented. Other items in the collection include envelopes, checks, mailing tags, receipts, advertisements, recipe booklets, and ledgers.<br /><br />The Series 2 collection includes photographs and stereoviews, oyster advertising material, restaurant menus, trade cards, comics, sheet music, post cards, business receipts, and books/booklets. The collection is organized by category, Chesapeake related, and general oyster material and was collected by Michele and Clifford Krainik.		View
	4	1965.0127.0001.00	dugouts	Dugout canoe by Robert Booth c. 1920	Booth, Robert __Creator	Circa 1900-1923	Gloucester, VA	Dugout canoe made from 1 log. Built by Robert Booth, of Native America decent, the canoe was created for fishing on the Ware River. He was formerly enslaved on the Goshen Farm along York River in Gloucester, Virginia. When Booth died the canoe was left in the marshes of Warehouse Cove, on the Ware River. This canoe is likely one of the last dugout canoes built in the Bay and is a direct link to the Native American canoes of the colonial period.		View
	5	0000.0975.0239.29	negatives	Telephone booth with sign, "Wall Street Journal Av	de Gast, Robert		No Address - Georgetown - Cecil - Sassafras River - Eastern Shore - MD - 21930 - USA	Telephone booth with sign, "Today's Wall Street Journal Available, Main Desk at Head of Dock." A marina in Georgetown, MD. (Rolls 239--251 and 355--365 were shot by de Gast for his book, "Western Wind, Eastern Shore." The pictures were shot in May, 1974, during his circumnavigation of the Eastern Shore.) See p. 42.	No image URL.	View
	6	0000.0975.0239.30	negatives	Telephone booth with sign, "Today's Wall Street Jo	de Gast, Robert			Telephone booth with sign, "Today's Wall Street Journal Available, Main Desk at Head of Dock." A marina in Georgetown, MD. (Rolls 239--251 and 355--365 were shot by de Gast for his book, "Western Wind, Eastern Shore." The pictures were shot in May, 1974, during his circumnavigation of the Eastern Shore.) See p. 42.	No image URL.	View
	7	8888.0098.0000.00	papers	Burgess manuscript collection				This collection is housed in 24 boxes, starting on CSC 15A2 and continuing on to 15A3, 15A4, 16A1, and 16A2<CR><CR>The collection is broad in scope and content. It includes about 100 trailboards and name boards, and many other artifacts obtained from Chesapeake Bay vessels of all kinds; years of correspondence (covered in this finding aid), much of it acquiring background for and arranging the publication of his books, particularly those about the schooners Albert F. Paul and Purnell T. White; many of his photographs; and numerous clippings containing articles by and about Burgess.Among the highlights of the collection are a number of documents from the late 19th century such as invoices, receipts, and note from George P. Bailey, of Kinsale, VA, a dealer in wood, ties, etc., and the canner of the "Pride of Westmoreland" brand tomatoes and commission merchants Courtney & Kennan (see Box 17). Also, the lengthy correspondence (1946-1969) with the Baltimore Sunday Sun about articles Burgess submitted for publication, including the ""I Remember When" series (Boxes 19 & 20)	No image URL.	View
	8	0000.1234.0056.00	photographic prints	Photography booth decorated with flags and bunting				Photography booth decorated with flags and bunting, sith sign reading "Have your picture taken on a postal".	No image URL.	View
	9	0000.1163.0039.19	photographic prints	Woman sitting at a booth.		Range, Cir 10/01/1972 - 10/31/1972		Woman sitting at a booth. Chesapeake Appreciation Days at Sandy Point State Park, October 1972<CR><CR>Contact print only, no negatives.	No image URL.	View
	10	0000.1163.0039.20	photographic prints	Woman sitting at a booth.		Range, Cir 10/01/1972 - 10/31/1972		Woman sitting at a booth. Chesapeake Appreciation Days at Sandy Point State Park, October 1972<CR><CR>Contact print only, no negatives.	No image URL.	View
	11	0000.1290.0001.00	photographic prints	Robert E. Burgess carves a plaque of schooner Dori	Booth, William E. __Photographer	Range, Exa 06/01/1976 - 06/30/1976		"Robert E. Burgess carves a plaque out of sugar pine, of the four-masted schooner Doris Hamlin under full sail. The wood was formerly a drawing table 7/8" thick used at the Newport News S. C. & D. C. Co. Burgess sailed in the Hamlin to Bermuda & Haiti in 1936. Boom ring on the table is from the 2-m sch. Boheia." (written on back of mounting board for oversize print.); date also written on mounting board; shows array of chisels, two wooden mallets, et al. Place unknown, but may be Burgess's home workshop. Stored in oversize file.	No image URL.	View
	12	0000.1290.0218.00	photographic prints	Windlass for oyster dredge aboard schooner A. Boot		Exact 01/01/1929 -	4927 30th Place Nw - Washignton - DC - 20008 - Canada	Windlass for oyster dredging aboard schooner A. Booth; mainsail furled, so she must be at a dock.	No image URL.	View
	13	0000.1295.0262.00	photographic prints	Bugeye Margaret Atkinson as a power boat, docked		Exact 08/25/1947 - 08/25/1947	Baltimore - Baltimore Harbor - Western Shore - MD	Bugeye Majestic as a power boat docked at Booth Packing Company, Baltimore. Cargo of baskets on board.. For source, see 1295.0001. Subject: Booth Packing Co.	No image URL.	View
	14	0000.1295.0367.00	photographic prints	Bugeye John Branford as a power boat			Glebe Point - Great Wicomico River - Western Shore - VA	Bugeye John Branford as a power boat leaving A. Jackson Booth Oyster Co. Glebe Pt. VA. (Oyster company not shown.) Seen from port quarter No date.. For source, see 1295.0001	No image URL.	View
	15	0000.1295.0903.00	photographic prints	Schooner A. Booth at Canton pier		Exact 05/13/1934 - 05/13/1934	Potomac Poultry Food Co - Canton - Baltimore - Patapsco River - Western Shore - MD	Schooner A. Booth at Potomac Poultry Food Co., Canton, Baltimore, with load of oyster shells; sails furled; seen from port bow. For source, see 1295.0001.	No image URL.	View
	16	0000.1295.0904.00	photographic prints	Schooner A. Booth tied up at Webster's, Baltimore			Webster's Pier - Baltimore - Patapsco - Western Shore - MD	Schooner A. Booth tied up at Webster'sm Baltimore; sails furled; too dark to use. No date.For source, see 1295.0001.	No image URL.	View
	17	0000.1290.0693.00	photographic prints	Schooner A. Booth docked with deck cargo of ?		Exact 05/13/1934 -		Schooner A. Booth docked with deck cargo of ? Seen from port bow; sails furled; large freighter in background; tender afloat in foreground. Place might be Baltimore.	No image URL.	View
	18	0000.1290.3768.00	photographic prints	Robert H. Burgess working on a ship carving of sc		Range, Exa 06/01/1976 - 06/30/1976		Robert H. Burgess working on a ship carving of schooner Doris Hamlin. "Burgess works at the curvature of the sails with his tools as the Doris Hamlin slowly emerges out of the solid drawing board. All the flat surfaces remaining will be carved with flourishes of traditional ship carving. The carving was completed after several years of spare time labor." (Typed caption attached to print)	No image URL.	View
	19	0000.2042.0162.00	postcards	Image of The Country Club Inn, Bel Air, MD		Range, Cir 01/01/1915 - 01/01/1930	No Address - Bel Air - Harford - Western Shore - MD - 21014 - USA	Black and white image of The Country Club Inn, Bel Air, Md. Image shows the Inn with the name below.The white border at the top contains the words, "Quaint" and "Comfortable." Text on the top of the back side reads, "Country Club Inn, Bel Air, Md. Located one square west of Court House, is over 200 years old. It was in this building that John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth, the great Actor, started their career and their room is about the same as when they occupied it. This Inn is a popular Tourists Hotel." The postcard does not contain postage or a message.	No image URL.	View
	20	0000.2042.0163.00	postcards	Black and white image of The Country Club Inn, Bel		Range, Cir 01/01/1915 - 01/01/1930	No Address - Bel Air - Harford - Western Shore - MD - 21014 - USA	Color image of The Country Club Inn, Bel Air, Md. Image shows the Inn with the name below. Text on the top of the back side reads, "Country Club Inn, Bel Air, Md. Located one square west of Court House, is over 200 years old. It was in this building that John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth, the great Actor, started their career and their room is about the same as when they occupied it. This Inn is a popular Tourists Hotel." The postcard does not contain postage or a message. Text on left side reads, "E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee."	No image URL.	View
	21	0000.2042.0181.00	postcards	Lake at the Historical Booth House, Bel Air, MD		Range, Cir 01/01/1907 - 07/14/1913	No Address - Bel Air - Harford - Western Shore - MD - 21014 - USA	Black and white image of the Lake at the Historical Booth House, Bel Air, Md. Image shows a small island in the middle of the lake with a man and his dog. Image is surrounded by a white border containing the description of the image. Back of postcard is divided and contains a message and postage. Text on left side reads, "Published by Jacob Schapiro, Jeweler, Bel Air, Md."	No image URL.	View
	22	0000.2042.0182.00	postcards	Black and white Image of Tudor Hall, Belair, MD		Range, Cir 01/01/1907 - 01/01/1915	No Address - Bel Air - Harford - Western Shore - MD - 21014 - USA	Black and white image of Tudor Hall, Belair MD. Description reads, "Side View of Tudor Hall, Birthplace of Edwin & John Wilkes Booth, Belair, MD." Image shows Tudor Hall covered with ivy. Image contains a white border. Back of postcard is divided but does not contain a message or postage. Text on left side reads, "Published by I. & M. Ottenheimer, Baltimore, Md."	No image URL.	View
	23	0000.2042.0183.00	postcards	Image of the Booth Place near Bel Air, MD		Range, Cir 01/01/1915 - 08/23/1917	No Address - Bel Air - Harford - Western Shore - MD - 21014 - USA	Black and white image of the Booth Place near Bel Air, MD. Image shows the Booth residence and is surrounded by a white border. Back of card is divided and contains a message and postage.	No image URL.	View
	24	8888.0136.0000.00	records (documents)	Gray and Waller Packing Co Records, 1900-1940s		1900-1940		Scope and Content: The collection consists primarily of ledgers related to the companies operation and supples. Payments to oystermen, crabbers, and shuckers are noted by individual name. Some ledgers have widely mixed dates, which appear to be the result of "available space" ( if a particular year ledger was filled or not readily available, another year's ledger, with unused pages, was used). Contracts and agreements are also included on some ledger pages. <br />Additional loose materials include calculations and work sheets, (later transferred to the ledger and usually un-dated), letters from venders, shipping forms, personal letters, advertisements, government letters pertaining to requests for development of oyster grounds, and Corp of Engineers regulations. <br />Biographical/Historical Note: The materials in this collection were purchased at Dixon's Auction, Crumpton, Md. circa 2012. The book " Elliott's Island: the land that time forgot" ( A.M.Foley and Freddie T. Waller, 1999, Dogwood Ridge Books, Elliott, Md) notes that Gray and Waller was one of several shucking houses on the island. The book notes that the business was operated by James Prettyman Gray and his brother-in-law Thomas "Monk" Waller at the Low-er Creek from around 1917 to 1925. Foley and Waller indicate that the company was known primarily as an oyster house although records show wholesale crabmeat shipments to Baltimore. Records contained in these ledgers also show fur trapping, fish and seasonal fruit and vegetable packaging and shipments , although these appear to represent a minor endeavor compared to oysters and crabs. The Elliott's Island book provides a very limited description of this company. In 1925 Prettyman Gray attempted to sell the company to brothers Joseph, Ira, and Carl, but the sale was not completed. The book notes, "Eight years later the shucking house, long since idle, was washed out by the August Storm of 1933. Ira and Joe Gray picked up the pieces from the mouth of McCready Creek, trucked them home to Gate Point, and built I. Gray and Bro., a shucking house which em-ployed a number of local shuckers, including Phyllis Gray, Bertie Gray, Gertie Gray, and Elsie Woodland ( the ledgers include activity and payment to these and other workers). The brothers owned private oysterbeds (sic) off from Gates Point and Joe Gray owned the buyboat Lucky Lindy with which to supply the business" ( El-liott's Island, pp. 114-115).<br />The ledger entries end in the 1940's although the Elliott Bros. crabhouse continued under new ownership. Ches-ter and Jean Martinek ran the operation until it burned in 1962. Although Foley and Waller note the business was idle sometime during the period from 1925 to 1933, the ledgers indicate a variety of continuing operations.<br />4 boxes	No image URL.	View
	25	8888.0191.0000	research (document genres)	"Notebook on Shipwrecks" research, Moale	Moale, H. Richard	circa 2000s		Research compiled by author Richard Moale while writing "Notebook on Shipwrecks" publishe din 2010. Includes, documentation of vessels, letters, and other data that did not go into the book.		View
	26	1997.0046.0001.00	ships logs	Log book of Albemarle	Forbes, William __Writer			Log book of the Navassa Phosphate Company's Chesapeake Bay sailing vessel (bark) Albemarle of Baltimore documenting voyages between Baltimore and Navassa Island for guano. 70 pages, stiff board covers with decorative paper in blue and brown. Smaller loose pages in back. Material: Paper, cotton binding, cardboard, ink. Presumably kept by Capt Wm Forbes, found in grandmothers attic (Glenda Harris)		View
	27	2006.0068.0528.00	spoons	Teaspoon, steamer "Queen Anne"	Queen Anne's Ferry and Equipment Co., __Distributor	Range, Cir 01/01/1899 - 12/31/1905		Silver teaspoon from the steamer "Queen Anne." The name "Queen Anne" engraved on the handle in block letters. The spoon is otherwise simple with a plain rounded handle. "Holmes, Booth & Haydens A1" is engraved on the back.		View
	28	2000.0055.0002.00	watercolor paintings	Schooner OLIVER H. BOOTH	James, Edward __Artist	1862-1869		Watercolor painting by Edward James, "Schooner Oliver H. Booth, Capt. Oliver Burger, running the Rebel Batteries on the Potomac, Feb. 15th, 1862 ". Initialed in monogram. Condition: some foxing, some acidification in right top corner and level.		View
	29	1999.0001.0001.00	watercolor paintings	Watercolor painting by Leonard Vosburgh "Loose Mai	Vosburgh, Leonard W __Artist	Range, Cir 01/01/1980 - 12/31/1999		Watercolor painting by Leonard Vosburgh "Loose Main Sheet", shows a double ended skiff with a man at the rudder; depicting a circa 1908 scene, signed LV, matted and framed. Material: Graphite, watercolor.		View