A. Roberts
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Bugeye
Year: 1890
Builder:
Location: Solomons
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Catalog # | Object Name | Title | Artist/Maker | Date Made | Place Made | Description | Full Image | CBMM Cat. Page |
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| 1 | 1989.0012.0001.00 | booklets | TOLCHESTER CO. SCHEDULE CARD FOR FERRY SERVICE BET | Range,Exac 01/01/1934 - 12/31/1934 | TOLCHESTER CO. SCHEDULE CARD FOR FERRY SERVICE BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND TOLCHESTER, SUMMER, 1934. SHOWS TIMES, FARES AND MAP OF FERRY ROUTES AND ROADS. YELLOW WITH BLACK AND RED PRINT. Title: SHORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE TO AND FROM THE EASTERN SHORE OF MD. AND DEL. Materials: PAPER Colors: POLYCHROMATIC Associated Place: TOLCHESTER BEACH, MD | No image URL. | View | |||
| 2 | 1989.0012.0002.00 | booklets | SCHEDULE CARD FOR THE CLAIBORNE-ANNAPOLIS-MATAPEAK | Clairborne-Annapolis Ferry Company, __Creator | Range,Exac 01/01/1933 - 12/31/1933 | SCHEDULE CARD FOR THE CLAIBORNE-ANNAPOLIS-MATAPEAKE FERRIES MADE FOR THE CLAIBORNE-ANNAPOLIS FERRY CO. SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE 6-30-1933. GIVES TIMES OF FERRIES AND CONNECTING SERVICES. INSIDE CARD IS MAP SHOWING FERRY ROUTES AND CONNECTING SERVICES. FRONTOF CARD PROCLAIMS "SAVE 100 MILES TO AND FROM THE LAND OF PARADISE." Title: SAVE 100 MILES TO AND FROM THE LAND OF PARADISE Materials: PAPER Colors: BLACK,BUFF Negative #: N2018 R5 | No image URL. | View | ||
| 3 | 2002.0040.0769.00 | buckets (vessels) | A wooden oyster bucket. The bucket | A wooden oyster bucket. The bucket is painted green with metal hoops and a handle. In black paint "Maryland Beauty Brand" is stenciled on the top of the bucket. "Oysters" is painted in red, and "RE Roberts Co., Baltimore, MD" is painted in black across the bottom. Condition: Fair; metal hoops and handle are rusting, wood is chipping and cracked, paint is peeling and stenciled text is difficult to read in places. |  | View | ||||
| 4 | 1976.0007.0001.00 | diaries | Diary of John Creamer, while aboard the brig CANAD | Creamer, John __Author | Circa 01/01/1833 - | Diary of John Creamer, while aboard the brig CANADA, bound from Baltimore to Batavia. 1833. Poetry, letters, recollectins, and observatins of the foreign ports. Some illustration. Description of birds, and sea life. Crew list. Condition: Fair/poor. Interior pages okay. Some fading and tearing at edges. Binding poor - leather spine powdered and worn, cardboard covers worn. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 5 | 8888.0096.0000.00 | documents | Lumber Industry Documents:BackgroundThe mate | Lumber Industry Documents:BackgroundThe material in this collection was acquired by purchase from various sources. It consists of two receipts, a time-keeper's book, a book listing lumber sales and shipments, a ledger of 304 pages, and a sheet found in the time-keepers book listing expenses for trips.Scope and ContentThe two receipts are dated 28 September and 30 November 1829 and refer to the receipt on board the sloops Eagle and True Guide of stated quantities of corded oak wood. In both cases the oak wood is for Justes Lowery, apparently of Hall's Landing. The only information about the vessels and Lowery is that contained in the receipts themselves. The location of Hall's Landing is not known.The book listing lumber sales and shipments by K. C. Rice of Craddockville, VA, dates from August 1916 to April 1918, and describes the transactions in detail. Craddockville is located at the head of Craddock Creek, about four miles west northwest of Belle Haven, VA. Most of the lumber, which largely consisted of 35- to 75-foot pilings or "sticks", was shipped by rail, although some was rafted. There are frequent references to Pennsylvania Railroad "car" numbers. Shipments were mostly from such Eastern Shore of Virginia points as Birds Nest Station, Nassawadox Station, Eastville Station, and Machipongo Station. Destinations included Newark and Harrison, NJ, Boston, MA, Buffalo, NY, and Mahanoy City, PA. Some of the "sticks" were sold under contract to the U. S. Government.The time-keeper's book covers the period from April 1910 through October 1910 and November 1912. It lists K. C. and John W. Rice, as well as a number of other employees. It gives the number of days worked per month. Each month is divided into two parts. Although the printed format contains a column for pay "rate per day", no rates are entered, nor is there an entry in the column for total amounts paid. The name K. C. Rice has been entered on the flyleaf at the back of the book.The ledger, which apparently is from the L. J. Houston & Co. of Stockton, MD, covers the period from January 1902 through December 1907. Stockton lies about eleven miles south of Snow Hill, MD, and about three miles north of the Virginia border. The ledger reflects monetary entries for a number of individuals and organizations whose names are shown in an alphabetical index at the front of the volume. In addition, sections of the ledger at pp. 193-209 and 302-304 list weekly rental income for 1909-1910 and1904-1906 respectively.One BoxFolder 1- Two receipts: (1) dated 28 Sept 1829 for eighteen and one half cords of oak wood received on board the sloop True Guide at Hall's Landing by W. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 6 | 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 | ||||
| 7 | 8888.0001.0000.00 | documents | Howard I. Chapelle Papers | Chapelle, Howard I | Exact 01/01/1901 - | The papers of Howard I. Chapelle consist of notes, printed materials, articles by others, some plans and correspondence. Much of the material is not original, but is source material collected by Chapelle.<br /><br />The papers are divided into three basic sections: 1. Correspondence, 2. thematic folders, and 3. whole notebooks by Chapelle. Papers are arranged into the most specific topic heading as possible. However, a researcher would be advised to peruse the subject headings before beginning specific research. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 8 | 8888.0014.0000.00 | documents | John Roberts Sherwood (1843-1929) Papers (1863-190 | Range, Exa 01/01/1843 - 12/31/1929 | John Roberts Sherwood (1843-1929) Papers (1863-1904). Service papers of Naval engineer John R. Sherwood, correspondence, orders, medical determinations.Papers given to the museum by Robert Fuller, a descendent of John Sherwood.Biographical BackgroundSee attached biography done by family member. Scope and ContentThe materials in this small collection pertain to the Naval service career of John Robert Sherwood. Sherwood served in the Civil War on a variety of ships. He served aboard the following:USS. CERESUSS MONOCACYUSS SOUTH CAROLINA USS STEAMER MEMPHIS USS GUERRIERE USS DONThe papers would be interesting to researchers in Naval history, or routine Civil War procedure.SubjectsCivil War; Navy; John R. Sherwood. Boats listed by name in subject cards.Introductory NoteFor many reasons, information on the forebears of John Roberts Sherwood and his wife, Isabella Miller Sherwood, our common ancestors, is incomplete. Early in the 1890s the Baltimore fire destroyed all the city records of births and deaths; the Broadway Methodist Church, of which John and Isabella and an assortment of other Sherwoods were members, no longer exists as such, and its records are said to be stuffed away in a Baltimore attic; but the chief causes for gaps in our knowledge are that John Porter Sherwood died before his son, John Roberts Sherwood, was born and that his widow, Rebecca Fox Sherwood, did not, as far as we know, keep in touch with her son's Sherwood relatives.Buried in Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore is Philip Sherwood (1775-1852), described on the tombstone as "A Defender of the City in 1812" and listed in the first Baltimore Directory as a clerk living on Ann Street in the Fells Point section of the city. He was the first Sherwood recorded as a Baltimore resident. His wife, Sarah Porter, who died in 1848, is also buried there, as are four of their twelve children. Philip Sherwood may have come to Baltimore from Talbot County on the IMaryland Eastern Shore, where many Sherwoods appear in records, but no firm proof, such as baptismal records, has yet turned up. "Sherwood" is not an uncommon name in England, and Sherwoods are listed among the earliest settlers of Connecticutand Virginia as well as Maryland. The oldest son of Philip and Sarah Porter Sherwood was John Porter Sherwood, born August 28, 1810. He married Rebecca Fox, the daughter of Charles James Fox, an innkeeper in Fells Point, on June 24, 1835. John Porter Sherwood is variously described in early records as a sea captain, a ship's carpenter, and a ship builder, but could, of course, have been all three within his lifetime. He died of yellow fever in the West Indies and was buried on October 28, 1842, in St. Thomas, then a Danish colony in the Virgin Islands. According to one source, his widow later married someone named Webb; her date of death and place of burial are not now known.The origins of Isabella Miller Sherwood's family are similarly difficult to trace, beyond her parents.1John Roberts Sherwood(1843-1929)John Roberts Sherwood, the son of John Porter Sherwood and Rebecca Fox Sherwood, was born in Baltimore on July 16, 1843. He was named for Captain John Roberts, a neighbor and family friend. He attended public schools in Baltimore and had a year of specialized training in marine engineering. After serving as an apprentice, he worked for six months as the engineer in a mill. On January 6, 1864, during the Civil Liar, he Joined the Navy as assistant engineer on the Ceres, seeing action when she engaged the Confederate ram Albemarle, and later was wounded while running a Confederate gun battery on the Roanoke River in Pamlico Sound, He also served on the frigate Guerriere under the famous officer, Admiral Davis.One account states that he resigned from the Navy at the end of the Civil War in 1865 and another that he stayed in until 1869. In any case, he next became an engineer for the Baltimore Steam Packet Company, generally known as the Old Bay Line, which operated a fleet of passenger and freight ships on the Chesapeake between Baltimore, Norfolk and Newport News. He worked his way up steadily in the company: he superintended the building of all the new steamers on the line and designed the "Bay Boats" specially for navigating Chesapeake Bay. His design for these was adopted not only by the Old Bay Line but also by its chief rival, the Chesapeake Line. He was appointed superintendent engineer after only five years, then general manager, vice-president, and finally, on May 7, 1907, he was elected President and General Manager. Until then, the president of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, of which the Old Bay Line was a subsidiary, had always also acted as president of the Old Bay Line. John Sherwood was the first person appointed to a separate presidency. Moreover, most of the senior members of the companyhad been Confederate sympathizers, while he, of course, had served in the Navy and fought for the Union. His success in the company was a major tribute to his character and to his ability as a marine engineer. He retired in October, 1918, at the age of seventy-five.John Roberts Sherwood married Isabella$ daughter of Joscph Miller of Howard County, on May 6, 1867. They had seven children: John, Willie, who died in infancy, 'Watson, Edna, Virginia, Lillian, and Anita. At first, the family lived throughout the year in a house on Baltimore Street opposite Patterson Park, but sometime in the late 1880s John Sherwood bought a 130-acre farm about fifteen miles northwest of the city near Pleasant Hill and between Owings Hills and Soldiers'Delight, This became their summer home. About 1905, afterhis older son had married and built a house on Park Heights Avenue in northwest Baltimore near Seven Mile Lane and just inside the city limits, John Roberts Sherwood built one nearby at 7105 Park Heights Avenue. Near the same time, he built a third house in Sarasota, Florida, overlooking Sarasota Bay on Gulfstream Avenue, As President of the Old Bay Lines he was a member of the board of directors of the Seaboard Air Line, and the extension of the railroad from Tampa to Sarasota was largely due to his advice. The Ringling family's choice of Sarasota as a winter home for themselves and the circus was a direct result of this extension which the circus trains could use. Thereafter, he divided his time each year among his three homes. In April, 1929, he fell on the stairs in his house an Park Heights Avenue-and baoke*his.hip. He developed pneumonia and died on April 24th. He was buried in the family plot ins Druid Ridge Cemetery.His first grandchild and namesake gives this description:"He was very kind to me, took me on many trips on the Bay andto his place in Florida. I spent much time on the farm with him,walking, talking, hunting, close to nature, for which I am grateful. . . . He loved Florida, its fishing, walking, climate and general atmosphere. He had a small motor boat which he used for trips all over Sarasota Bay, the inlets and passes.. On the farm he loved to hunt for rabbits and the various kinds of birds, whchwere abundant."He was generally considered a handsome man, and in his later' years he bore a striking resemblance to King George V of England, partly because his beard was cut in the same style. On summer Sundays at the farm he enjoyed watching the assorted grandchildren, gathered for a Sunday visit, playing games on the lawn and would sometimes dispense shiny new quarters to them (this in a day when John D. Rockefeller was dispensing dimest). He also enjoyed drinking mint juleps in the summer, and the younger grandchildren competed with each other to see who could stir the glasses to produce the most frost on the outside, the mark of a good julep. This was, of course, during Prohibition, but whiskey was readily available from a variety of sources and, with a doctor's prescription,could be bought legally from drugstores.The entry on John Roberts Sherwood in Baltimore: Its History and Its Feople (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912) includes this description:In politics Captain Sherwood is a Republican, but has always refused to accept public office, with the exception of serving at intervals on the jail and harbor boards. He possesses, however, that true public spirit and rapidity of judgment which enable him, in the midst of incessant business activity, to give to the affairs of the community effort and counsel of genuine value. His advice is frequently solicited and not seldom has his penetrating thought added wisdom to public movements. A man of most courteous manners, he is yet firm and unyielding in all that he believes to be right.The author continues by saying thatCaptain Sherwood is the most home-loving of men, his devotion to his family being equaled only by his devotion to business, and so desirous is he to spend in the society of his wife and children all the hours not demanded by duty, that he is a member of not one club, no social organization, albeit he is a man of genial nature, possessing attractions sufficient to lure him from his fireside. Subject: John R Sherwood | No image URL. | View | |||
| 9 | 8888.0025.0000.00 | documents | Edward G. Brownlee Collection (1934-1946)B | Range, Exa 01/01/1940 - | Edward G. Brownlee Collection (1934-1946)Biographical-Background- -Edward Brownlee worked closely with Marion Brewington and other contemporaries in recording the vanishing maritime scene in the mid-Atlantic region. Around 1940, Brownlee drew many of the drawings that appear in Marion Brewington's Chesapeake Bay Loq Canoes and Buqeyes.Scope and ContentThis material falls into two types: plant that were drawn by Brownlee and photographs and papers that pertain to specific boats. Some of the photographs were taken by Brewington and given to Brownlee. The subject matter is Chesapeake sailing craft which range from schooners to skiffs.Subjects:Chesapeake sailing craft Subject: Edward G Brownlee | No image URL. | View | |||
| 10 | 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 | ||||
| 11 | 8888.0088.0000.00 | documents | Willard Thomas Collection:BackgroundWillard | Range, Cir 01/01/1904 - 12/31/1950 | Willard Thomas Collection:BackgroundWillard Thomas is a great-nephew of John W. Jones (1868-1933) of Queen Anne's County. Jones's son, Herbert Pinckey Jones married Mr. Thomas's aunt, Evelyn Thomas.John Jones was a Deputy Commander of the Maryland State Fishery Force, once known as the Oyster Navy. The Fishery Force was charged with enforcing Maryland laws and regulations dealing with harvesting oysters in Maryland's part of the Chesapeake Bay. The Force consisted of a number of schooners, each of which, captained by a deputy commander, was assigned to patrol a specific area of the bay. Jones was the captain of the Fishery Force schooner Frolic [see Photo File 637.003 (1909)] from 1904 to 1908, and from 1920 to 1929 he commanded the Force's powerboat Talbot [see Photo Files 372.008 & 372.009 (no date)]. Frolic, a 62 foot schooner built by Brusstar & Co., of Baltimore in 1884, was assigned to patrol the Second District which included Eastern Bay, and the Miles and Wye Rivers.The principal item in the collection is a logbook kept by Captain Jones while he commanded Frolic between September 1904 and September 1908. This logbook is significant because it is possibly the only one to have survived from the period that the schooners were active in patrolling the bay.Scope and ContentIn addition to the logbook, the collection includes various documents related to Frolic's patrol such as communications from the Fishery Force commander, Thomas C. B. Howard, receipts for fines collected for violations of the oyster laws, and receipts for taxes paid to the Fishery Force for oysters taken out of state. Other items in the collection, related to the Fishery Force, is a photo of a yacht, account book kept by waterman Harry Booker (1897-1977), and invoices for purchases for the schooner Lanclott. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 12 | 8888.0087.0000.00 | documents | H. M. Rowe & Co., Oyster Packers:BackgroundI | Range, Cir 03/01/1882 - 07/31/1887 | H. M. Rowe & Co., Oyster Packers:BackgroundIn 2001 the museum purchased four large, leatherbound books consisting of volumes labeled "Ledger", "Journal", "Cash", and "H. M. Rowe & Co." The latter contained no readable entries. The Journal contained entries from 1 March 1882 through 31 August 1885; Cash had entries from 1 September 1885 through 16 July 1887; and the Ledger covered the period from 1884 through July 1887.Wood's Baltimore City Directory, 1874 (Baltimore: John W. Woods), at p. 492, lists "Rowe, H. M. & Co (H. M. & W. H. Rowe) oyster packers, 68 Boston". Also, H. M. Rowe is listed at "393 e Pratt", and Wm. H. Rowe is listed at "395 e Pratt". Finally, James B. Rowe, bookkeeper, is listed at "393 e Pratt". From this it is evident that the Rowe company was in the oyster packing business as early as 1874. Information contained in the three volumes suggests that the company ended its business in July 1887. Polk's Baltimore City Directory, 1902, has no listing for the company.In 1882 Joseph W. Brooks (1832-1915) built a schooner named H. M Rowe at his yard in Dorchester County, MD. (See Pete Lesher, "The Industrious Shipbuilder: Joseph W. Brooks" (The Weather Gauge, v. 36, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 3-11 and 33). A photo at p. 7 shows the Rowe with her homeport as Deals Island. The vessel's first owner was Caleb J. Moore whose connection with the Rowes is not known. As shown below, however, the Rowe company purchased oysters from the vessel over several years.Scope and ContentThe Journal and Cash volumes reflect receipts and disbursements over a five-year period. Many of the disbursements were small amounts to the three Rowes; many others were to named recipients or for such expenses as stamps, labels, etc.The Journal (pp. 1-239) is of interest because it shows on a day-by-day basis all receipts and disbursements from 1 March 1882 through 31 August 1885. Disbursements cover everything from postage stamps, newspaper purchases (New York Herald, Baltimore American), payments to the Rowes and their employees, to payments for oysters delivered by ships. Among many vessels to which payments were made were the sloop Morning Light, and schooners Sea Belle, Sharps Island, Nautilus, Exchange, H. P. Barnes, Maid of Erin, Ann Virginia, Two Brothers, and Lewis Taulane. Of special are payments to the schooner H. M Rowe. These began on 6 October 1882 with the entry (p. 45) showing a payment of $50.00, and the entry "name & colors". Subsequent entries show payments to the vessel throughout the years 1882 until 19 January 1885. Most payments were for relatively large amounts apparently for cargos of oysters: examples are payments of $315.00 on 8 December 1882 (p. 61), $511.56 on 27 December 1882, and $455.05 on 11 January 1883.However, the key portion of the collection is contained in the Ledger. Between pages 70 and 261 the entries show shipments of oysters to numerous buyers in a variety of states and Ontario, Canada. Each entry shows the date of shipment, the quantity shipped (barrels, half-barrels, kegs, tubs), the grade of the shipment(standards, selects), the price of the shipment, and the payment dates and amounts, almost always in cash. The Ledger also shows that each of the Rowes owned one-third of the value of the assets of the company (pp. 4-5), but that H.M. Rowe held the most capital (pp. 30-43). Although the Rowes were all partners in the firm, we do not know what their relationship was to each other.A second important part of the Ledger reflects payments for merchandise to numerous individuals and companies (pp. 301-329).In short, although this company was only one of many oyster packers and shippers in Baltimore during the period covered by these volumes, clearly its business was widespread and apparently lucrative: when the company apparently wound up its business on 16 July 1887, the total capital split among the Rowes was about $21,665, a fair amount for the time. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 13 | 8888.0175.0000 | documents | MS 175 Ed Thieler Papers | Thieler, Edward R | Collection of materials related to Ed Theiler's model making and nameboard carving. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 14 | 2006.0068.0469.00 | half-hulls (model) | Builder's half-hull model of "Wentz. L. Roberts" | Lloyd, Otis S __Builder | Range, Cir 01/01/1896 - 12/31/1896 | Original half-hull model used to design and construct the round-stern, frame bugeye "Wentz L. Roberts." The model is built in horizontal lifts and held together with wooden pegs. Notes and pencil marks are still visible on the top of the topmost lift. The model was mouted by Burgess onto a new backing board with two screws. |  | View | ||
| 15 | 8888.0167.0000.00 | ledger (account book) | Cape Charles Customs House Records, 1895-1914 | Circa 1895-Circa 1914 | 16 volumes of Cape Charles Custom House Records priarmily for the years 1895-1914, with some information ranting from 18786 to 1930. Deaccessioned from artifact collection, but no MS number yet assigned. <br /><br />Copies Of Mortgages - Registered or Enrolled Vessels Collector's Office - Custom House / <br />from April 29, 1899 to March 10, 1916 <br /><br />Record of Licenses for Enrolled Vessels - Custom House department of Commerce & Labor <br />April 3, 1908 to Sept. 14, 1911 <br /><br />Master's Oath for Renewal by Indorsement of License of Merchant Vessel or Yacht - Custom House Department of Commerce, Aug. 1, 1912 to July 11, 1918 <br /><br />Record of all Seizures, Fines, Penal ties & Forfeitures For Violations of The Navigation Steamboat Inspection & Immigration Laws & Dispositions Thereof, Custom House Port of Cape Charles, Va. Department of Commerce & Labor, Sept. 5, 1907 to Aug. 4, 1914 <br /><br />Copies of Bills of Sale - Enrolled Vessels Collector's Office - Custom House Jan. 12, 1901 to July 17, 1901 <br />Index of Registers - Custom House <br /><br />Sept. 7, 1886 to Sept. 19, 1907 <br />Copies of Licenses of Vessels Under 20 Tons_ Custom House Nov. 4, 1905 to June 27, 1906 <br /><br />Consolidated Certificates Of Enrollment & License, Department of Commerce & Labor,<br />Aug. 10, 1911 to June 6, 1938 <br /><br /> Record of Abstracts of Registers, Enrollments & Licenses Issued & Surrendered <br />Collector's Office - Custom House July 1, 1901 to March 31, 1908 <br /><br /> Copies Of Mortgages - Licensed Vessels Collector's Office- Custom House Oct. 4, 1886 to Dec. 16, 1909 <br /><br />Record of Abstracts Of Registers, Enrollments & Licensed Issued & Surrendered <br />Collector's Office - Custom House April 30, 1895 to June 30, 1902 <br /><br />Copies of Licenses of Enrolled Vessels Collector's Office - Custom House Aug. 19, 1898 to June 30, 1911 <br />Record of Enrollments - Custom House July 24, 1876 to Nov. 25, 1910 <br /><br />Record of Licenses of Vessels Under 20 Tons Custom House Department of Commerce & Labor June 15, 1905 to Nov. 2, 1905 <br /> <br />Copies of Licenses of Vessels Under 20 Tons Collector's Office - Custom House <br />May 16, 1904 to Oct. 12, 1904 <br /><br />Bills of Sale of Licensed Vessels Under 20 Tons May 21, 1900 to March 14, 1902<br /> | No image URL. | View | |||
| 16 | 1991.0009.0001.00 | models | Model of Floating Theater James Adams made by CBMM volunteers | Holland, John R __Designer | Range, Cir 12/01/1990 - 03/01/1991 | Model of Floating Theater James Adams made by CBMM volunteers durning the winter of 1990-91. Model made to a scale of 14': 1 foot, based on plans drawn up by John R. Holland of Jay Benford Associates of St. Michaels. Holland drew the plans from existing dimensions and photographs. Model was made to conform to the Theatre's appearance in 1918, while it still had the full length balcony and shutters. Model is made mainly of scratch built material with the exception of the siding. Some of the deck fittings are widow shutters. <br /><br />Names of Model Makers: Maurice Dashiel, Grasenville; Marilyn and Bob Mason, Bozman; Eugene Guthrie, Easton; Jacque Baker, Easton; Paul Walbridge, Trappe; Ashley and Bruce Summers, Tunis Mills; Bob Robert, Easton; Ray Stewart, Norman Stewart, Royal Oak; Bill Stagg, Easton; Seymour. |  | View | ||
| 17 | 0000.0858.0018.00 | negatives | SKIPJACK "IDA MAY" AT WENONA MARYLAND; From old Re | Roberts, John J __Photographer | No Address - Wenona - MD - 21676-0146 - USA | SKIPJACK "IDA MAY" AT WENONA MARYLAND; From old Remarks field: NOW CONVERTED TO A PLEASURE BOAT Place: WENONA, MD Old Subject Fields: SAIL VESSELS, SKIPJACKS; SOMERSET COUNTY | No image URL. | View | ||
| 18 | 2002.0040.0383.00 | oyster cans | Orange background; brown stripes top & bottom that | National Can Co., __Manufacturer ||Roberts Co., R E __Packed by | Range, Cir 01/01/1925 - 01/01/1963 | Orange background; brown stripes top & bottom that go into white banners; woman's smiling face in 1 1/2" diameter circle mid front; brown and white lettering. Front: In top banner: "The Oyster You Love to Eat"; in bottom banner: "Packed by R.E. Roberts Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD."; "Maryland Beauty Brand Raw Oysters" Back: Inside white shield shaped area, "The Famous Maryland Beauty Brand Raw Oysters, Packed fresh from the shell...By R.E. Roberts Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD." Side: "MD.17"; "Fresh from the Shell for Discriminating People" Lid: "Extra Standards", embossed. Condition: Very good, large dent right front, rusting, lid rusty, minor dent left top. Material: Steel, tin, paint. Can was treated with a wax coat on 1/18/2012 | No image available | View | ||
| 19 | 2002.0040.0069.00 | oyster cans | Gallon oyster tin with bale. R.E. Roberts Wild Duck | M P Co., __Manufacturer ||Roberts Co., R E __Packed by | 1880-1940 | One gallon oyster tin with bale. Turquiose with orange lettering and picture of a flying duck. Front: "Wild Duck Brand Raw Oysters". Back: "Famous for flavor...packed daily by R. E. Roberts Co. Inc., Baltimore, MD." Side: "MD 17" Lid: "Extra Selects" embossed Can: M.P. Co. Made of steel, tin, and paint. Condition: good, rust specks, small dent on back by company name. |  | View | ||
| 20 | 2002.0040.0329.00 | oyster cans | Metallic red background, black & silver lettering | Metal Packing Corp., __Manufacturer ||Roberts & Co, Geo M __Packed by | Circa 01/01/1906 - | Metallic red background, black & silver lettering surrounding a lion & a nymph with horn; silver banner with "TRIUMPH BRAND" in black. Front: "Triumph Brand Oysters, Geo. M. Roberts & Co., Baltimore, MD." Back: Black & silver lettering inside box outlined in black, "Keep on ice...first class fresh shucked oysters...Pure Food Law...Geo. M. Roberts & Co., Baltimore, MD." Side is blank. Lid: Rusty, blank. Conditnion: Good, very discolored and rusty, though not dented. |  | View | ||
| 21 | 2002.0040.0068.00 | oyster cans | One gallon tin with bale, orange off-white letteri | Range, Cir 01/01/1930 - 12/31/1940 | One gallon tin with bale, orange off-white lettering and two brown horizontal stripes 1" from top and bottom. Front: photo of c. 1930-40s girl with bobby pinned hair, flanked by flower design on both sides, "Maryland Beauty Brand Raw Oysters, 'The Oysters you love to eat', packed by R. E. Roberts Co. Inc., Baltimore, MD" Back: "packed fresh from the shell for discriminating people" Side: MD-17. Lid: "Extra Standards" embossed. Made of steel, tin and paint. Condition: very good, some scratches. Can was treated with a wax coat on 1/18/2012 |  | View | |||
| 22 | 2002.0040.0067.00 | oyster cans | One gallon tin with bale, orange with off-white le | Range, Cir 01/01/1910 - 12/31/1930 | One gallon tin with bale, orange with off-white lettering and two brown horizontal stripes 1" from top and bottom. Front: photo of c. 1910-20s flapper girl with short, curled bobbed hair flanked by flower designs on both sides. "Maryland Beauty Brand Raw Oysters, 'The Oysters you love to eat - Fresh from the shell for disciminating people." Back: "Packed by R E Roberts Co. Inc. Baltimore, MD." Side: "MD-17" Lid" embossed "Extra Standards." Materials: steel, tin, paint. Condition: very good. paint worn in a few places (mainly on back). |  | View | |||
| 23 | 2002.0040.0066.00 | oyster cans | One gallon oyster tin with bale, plain grayish-bro | Roberts Co., R E __Packed by | Range, Exa 01/01/1880 - 12/31/1914 | One gallon oyster tin with bale, plain grayish-brown with a wording embossed except for lid. Front: Maryland Beauty Oysters, Packed by R E Roberts Co., Baltimore, MD" Side: "Minimum VOlume Gallon, MD-17" Lid: in relief, "Extra Standards." Made of steel, tin, brawn laquer. Condition: good, surface bumpy. |  | View | ||
| 24 | 2002.0040.0065.00 | oyster cans | One gallon tin with bale, red with gray & black le | Roberts & Co, Geo M __Packed by | Range, Exa 01/01/1906 - 12/31/1940 | One gallon tin with bale, red with gray & black lettering. Front: rectanguler border, small picture of maiden in a toga next to a lion, "Triumph Brand Oysters, Geo. M. Roberts & Co., Baltimore MD" Back: Meets Pure Food Law. Side: "MD 51." Lid: "Extra Selects" embossed. Materials: steel, tin, and paint. Condition: fair, poor - cylinder has a few scratches and dents on back; major rust on bottom with hole rusted through. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 25 | 2002.0040.0621.00 | oyster crate | A wood "RE Roberts Co." On two sides of the crate | Roberts Co., R E __Packed by | A wood "RE Roberts Co." On two sides of the crate there is an image of a woman on the right side. "Maryland Beauty" stamped in black above and below the image. "Finest in the World" is stamped in black on the top and "Oysters" is stamped in red below it. "RE Roberts Co., Baltimore, MD" is stamped in black across the bottom. Condition: Fair: several large cracks and chips in the wood, surface staining. |  | View | |||
| 26 | 8888.0156.0000.00 | papers (document genres) | Marine Engine Materials | Marine Engine Materials: Series 1, Gerald Dunn; Series 2, William B. Wimbrow; Series 3 Misc. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 27 | 0000.1234.0018.00 | photographic prints | Seafood festival King Andy Roberts holding Queen M | Cheyne, Christopher E. __Photographer | Seafood festival King Andy Roberts holding Queen Mitzi Gaynor on a dock near a boat. Subject: Mitzi Gaynor Subject: Andy Roberts | No image URL. | View | |||
| 28 | 0000.1134.0603.00 | photographic prints | Bill Roberts standing and holding a rope | Range, Exa 03/21/1932 - 06/21/1932 | No Address - Fredericktown - MD | Bill Roberts standing and holding a rope, near a dock in Fredericktown, MD<CR> Subject: Bill Roberts | No image URL. | View | ||
| 29 | 0000.0869.0001.00 | photographs | TUG BALTIMORE ON RAILWAY AT A. SMITH & SONS SHIPYA | Roberts, Robert L __Photographer | Range,Exac 01/01/1995 - 12/31/1995 | TUG BALTIMORE ON RAILWAY AT A. SMITH & SONS SHIPYARD, BALTIMORE Old Subject Fields: POWER VESSELS, TUG BOATS; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View | ||
| 30 | 2023.0011.0001 | Quilt | Chesapeake Morning Quilt | Bayside Quilters of the Eastern Shore | 2010 | A handmade quilt by quilters from the Bayside Quilters of the Eastern Shore Guild. The quilt is divided into 7 sections representing different types of wildlife and natural environments on the Chesapeake Bay. It is made of a variety of different fabrics and uses beads and stuffing to add textures and colors to represent animals, plants, water, and land. <br /><br />The sections of the quilt and the makers of the sections are as follows: In the Air by Julie Hardy, On the Shore by Bette Troike, In the Marsh by Sylvia Snyder, On the Water by Sandy Bemis, In the Water by Alice Salik and Margie Pendelton, On the Sea Bottom by Margaret Roberts, and In the Mud by Phyllis Parker. |  | View | ||
| 31 | 2023.0011.0002 | Quilt | Chesapeake Morning Poem Quilt | Bayside Quilters of the Eastern Shore | c 2010 | A quilt featuring a poem by Pam Parks quilted by Monica Agapaloglou who is part of the Bayside Quilters of the Eastern Shore Guild. This quilt is part of Chesapeake Morning, a handmade quilt by quilters from the Bayside Quilters of the Eastern Shore Guild. The quilt is divided into 7 sections representing different types of wildlife and natural environments on the Chesapeake Bay. It is made of a variety of different fabrics and uses beads and stuffing to add textures and colors to represent animals, plants, water, and land.<br /><br />The sections of the quilt and the makers of the sections are as follows: In the Air by Julie Hardy, On the Shore by Bette Troike, In the Marsh by Sylvia Snyder, On the Water by Sandy Bemis, In the Water by Alice Salik and Margie Pendelton, On the Sea Bottom by Margaret Roberts, and In the Mud by Phyllis Parker. |  | View | ||
| 32 | 2004.0050.0006.01 | razors | Straight razor, "Red Man (chief logo), Made in Ger | Straight razor, "Red Man (chief logo), Made in Germany." It has a leather slip case. Razor has silver/brass decorative tips on handles with reddish bark type handles. Condition: Good. Slip case poor; hole at one end. Material: Metal, early celluloid bark pattern. |  | View | ||||
| 33 | 2004.0050.0007.01 | razors | Straight razor marked "Gebr. Becker, Solinger, Ger | Straight razor marked "Gebr. Becker, Solinger, Germany". It has silver steel, bark type handles, original case. The case is yellow card board with simulated leather covering. Condition: Good. Material: Steel, Celluloid (?). |  | View | ||||
| 34 | 8888.0177.0000 | sail plans --documents | Haarstick-North Sails documentation | 1980s-2000s | Eight boxes containing printed and hand-drawn sail plans, from Haarstick Sailmakers and North Sails, for numerous classes of cruising and racing sailboats. Both Haarstick and North used computer driven equipment to cut the sails and many folders contain the information used to load computers with the data needed to precisely cut the sails for the many types of vessels and various sails required. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 35 | 8888.0157.0000.00 | serials (publications) | Boat Manufactureer Collections | Boat manufacturer catalogs, flyers, brochures, price sheets, photographs, operating manuals, and related magazine articles, donated by various individuals. <br />Series 1 William Gross<br />Series 2 Misc. <br />Series 3 Chris Craft Sailboat Division<br />Series 4 John C. Horner (in progress) | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 36 | 1994.0027.0053.00 | ships plans | 45' Skipjack (three sail bateau) Thelma Roberts | Plan for the Skipjack (three sail bateau) Thelma Roberts. Drawings depict hull lines, profile, and notes. Illustration for Chapelle Booklet "Skipjack" Original in Smithsonian. Boat length overall is 45'. Blueline Print. Includes a good blackline print suitable for reproduction. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 37 | 1964.0002.0024.00 | ships plans | Motorized Log Canoe | Gibson, R H __Creator | Plans for a Motorized Log Canoe, based on the Magic and a boat owned by R.L. Roberts, Sr. Boat dimensions are 30' 3 x 7' x 1' 2". The motorized canoe is 1900/50 with one cylinderal two cycle engine, planksheer raised, centerboard, and maststeps, etc. removed. The canoe used little fuel at slow speed. Drawn by donor in 1963-1964 for Talbot County Historical Society. Scale is 1/2"=1'. The log canoe has a seven log bottom. One set of Plans A-B. Plan A is a sketch of the sheer and half-breadth plan. Plan B is the sheer, half-breadth and body plan with a cross section of the engine. Material is pencil on legal paper for Plan A; pencil on paper for Plan B. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 38 | 1997.0055.0001.01 | ships plans | Schooner Sultana | Circa 01/01/1997 - | Data and drawings of the schooner Sultana built in 1768 at Boston and originally used by the British for law enforcement, eventually came to the Chesapeake Bay and used for transportation and cargo. Plans & data are part of a current plan to build a replica in Chestertown, MD. One set of Plans A-B. Plan A is the British Admiralty draught for HM Schooner Sultana from the British National Maritime Museum. Plan B is the 1993 Model rigging plan for Model Shipways Sultana. |  | View | |||
| 39 | 2020.0013.0001 | skiffs, crabbing | Crab Skiff | Parks, Charles H. | circa 1928 | Fishing Creek - MD | Crab skiff built by Charles H. Parks and used to harvest peeler crabs out of Hooper Island. Charles H. Parks opperated a seafood packing house till the 1960s. |  | View | |
| 40 | 0000.0791.0035.00 | tugboats | Tug Delaware docked near a bridge | Tug Delaware docked near a bridge; seen from port side; man on dock and a man in pilot house; no place, no date. "From the Collection of Robert L. Roberts, Jr. Easton, MD 21601" stamped on back. | No image URL. | View |
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