Betty Smith
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Skipjack
Year: 1904
Builder:
Location: Oriole
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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 | 8888.0075.0000.00 | documents | Harold B. Kennerly, Jr. Collection:The bulk of | Range, Cir 01/01/1930 - 12/31/1979 | Harold B. Kennerly, Jr. Collection:The bulk of the Kennerly collection is comprised of correspondence concerning efforts to fight a proposed tariff on imported tuna in the early 1950s. Chiefly, they concern the H. B. Kennerly & Son packing company and House of Representatives Bill 5693, which sought to put a 3 cent per pound tax on imported tuna. Kennerly, as head of the Tuna Canners Association, corresponded heavily with members of Congress in 1951 and 1952 against the bill. Following this he opposed restrictions on imported groundfish fillets, and worked for scientific study of the tuna fish. Additional materials in the collection include newspaper and magazine articles about Bill 5693 and H. B. Kennerly & Son, and documents from both H. B. Kennerly & Son and its predecessor, Roaring Point Oyster Company. The collection also includes two miscellaneous items from local Nanticoke history: an article about a steamboat line, and a daybook from a construction company. Biographical BackgroundMr. Harold B. Kennerly, Jr. (born 1914/1915) was an important figure in Maryland's Eastern Shore seafood industry from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was the third generation of Kennerlys to operate oyster houses on the Chesapeake. His father, Harold, Sr., operated the Roaring Point Oyster Company, a seasonal oyster shucking business out of Nanticoke, Maryland. When the son joined the firm circa 1938 the name changed to Harold B. Kennerly & Son. During World War II they canned tomatoes in the summer and fish products starting in the fall that including herring, whitefish, and oysters. In 1945 they became the first tuna canners on the Eastern Shore, first canning albacore tuna caught in the Atlantic, then importing Pacific tuna from Peru, Japan, and elsewhere as production (and demand) increased. By the early 1950s, the company canned tuna, herring, vegetables, blackberries, strawberries, and froze clam chowder, sea clams, clam strips, oysters, oyster stews, and fish sticks. Around 1951 Harold, Jr. joined several other canners in founding the Tuna Canners Association (members in MA, MD, and ME) to fight passage of House of Representatives Bill 5693, legislation that sought to levy a three-cent tax on every pound of "imported" tuna fish. The tariff would have benefited Southern California packing houses that canned tuna caught by American vessels fishing in waters off the coasts of Central and South America. East Coast packers purchased tuna from the same region, though they earned the "import" designation by using local fishermen and transporting the catch to the United States in foreign-owned vessels. Through an intense lobbying effort between the Tuna Canners Association and various Senators, the bill was defeated when finally put to a vote in the U. S. Senate on June 24, 1952. Even after this victory, the correspondence indicates additional hearings, potential restrictions, and tariff negotiations continuing into the mid 1950s, beyond the dates of this collection. When not lobbying for the canning industry, Harold Kennerly, Jr. traveled the United States marketing oysters. The company shipped across the continental United States and Canada, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Montreal. They canned under many different brands, including Maryland House and Seacrest, and canned for other companies including Campbell's Soup, A & P, Kroeger, and American Stores. Besides their own seed oyster beds in the Nanticoke River, they at various times bought oysters from Texas, Louisiana, Virginia, Oregon, and Washington State. They also had companies in Virginia and Delaware shucking for them. In 1956 H. B. Kennerly & Son was sold to Coldwater Seafood. Harold, Sr. passed away that year during the negotiation process. Following the sale Harold, Jr. bought an oyster house across Nanticoke Harbor and started Nanticoke Seafood Company, formerly the frozen division of H. B. Kennerly & Son. He finally retired from the oyster business around 1979. Subjects:Seafood Industry; Seafood Packing; Oyster Industry; Marine Construction; Nanticoke, MD--HistoryIndividuals mentioned in the Collection:A. W. AndersonHarold BassettVirginia BlandLeon C. BulowJohn M. Butler (Sen., MD)Harry P. Cain (Sen., WA)Homer E. Capehart (Sen., IN)Marvin CoxEverett McKinley Dirksen (Sen., IL)James H. Duff (Sen., PA)Homer Ferguson (Sen., MI)Ralph E. Flanders (Sen., VT)Walter F. George (Sen., GA)Guy M. Gillette (Sen., IA)Betty GuhringJohn HarrisonThomas C. Henning, Jr. (Sen., MO)Clyde R. Hoey (Sen., NC)Spessard L. Holland (Sen., FL)Lester C. Hunt (Sen., WY)Irving M. Ives (Sen., NY)Olin D. Johnston (Sen., SC)Estes Kefauver (Sen., TN)Harold B. Kennerly, Jr.Harold B. Kennerly, Sr.Juan Baptista de Lavalle Herbert H. Lehman (Sen., NY)Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Sen., MA)Burnet R. Maybank (Sen., SC)Ernest W. McFarland (Sen., AZ)Brian McMahon (Sen., CT)Edward T. Miller (Rep., MD)Mike Monroney (Sen., OK)Felix MorleyHerbert R. O'Conor (Sen., MD)A. Willis Robertson (Sen., VA)Richard B. Russell (Sen., GA)Otto SchoenrichH. Alexander Smith (Sen., NJ)John Sparkman (Sen., AL)Raymond E. SteeleWilliam StumpEdward J. Thye (Sen., MN)John J. Williams (Sen., DE)P. J. WingateArnold VoglVessel(s) mentioned in the Collection: Rumba (refrigerator ship)Congressional Bills mentioned in the Collection:H.R. 5693S. 2802Organizations, Company names, & Newspapers / Periodicals mentioned: American Seafood Distributors AssociationAmerican Tuna Boat Association, CACalifornia Fish Canners AssociationFish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Department of the InteriorH. B. Kennerly & Son, Nanticoke, MDRiviera Packing Company, Eastport, MERoaring Point Oyster Co., Nanticoke, MDTuna Canners Association (TCA), Washington, DCUnited States Tariff Commission (USTC)United States SenateBaltimore Evening SunPathfinder MagazineMaryland Tidewater NewsSun MagazineWashington Star Subject: Harold B Kennerly Jr | No image URL. | View | |||
| 2 | 8888.0046.0000.00 | documents | Cambridge, Maryland Custom Bureau Enrollment and L | Exact 02/01/1988 - | Cambridge, Maryland Custom Bureau Enrollment and License Certificates (1923 - 1958)The collection is comprised of 377 vessel enrollment records for Cambridge, Maryland dating between 1923 and 1958.BackgroundAlthough it is unclear who saved the Cambridge enrollment records, they were donated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by Mr. Russ Rippell in 1993.SubjectsChesapeake Bay vessels, 1920s-1950s; Maryland Custom Bureau Records; Vessel Enrollment Records; Cambridge, MD--History; Maryland--HistoryCambridge, Maryland Enrollment Records:Please see attached spreadsheet for a specific listing by Doc. #. The enrollment records were arranged chronologically | No image URL. | View | |||
| 3 | 0000.1134.0326.00 | photographic prints | DECK BOAT BETTY CONWAY ON THE MARINE RAILWAY AT SM | Range,Exac 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941 | Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD | DECK BOAT BETTY CONWAY ON THE MARINE RAILWAY AT SMITH'S SHIPYARD, CURTIS CREEK, MD, WITH ANOTHER DECK BOAT PARTLY VISIBLE Place: CURTIS CREEK, MD; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View |
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