
These records are found in the collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland. Uncurated search results are presented to give researchers and interested readers an idea of whether CBMM’s archives contain information about this vessel and whether it may be worthwhile to contact CBMM for further investigation. Uncurated results may be inaccurate or incomplete.
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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 | 0000.0691.0007.00 | REAR OF BENSON HOME, MULBERRY STREET (CORA DODSON' | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | REAR OF BENSON HOME, MULBERRY STREET (CORA DODSON'S BOARDING HOUSE WHERE TEACHERS BOARDED); From old Remarks field: TORN DOWN 1962 Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS<CR><CR>Glass plate located in CSA 12 D 3 | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 2 | 2002.0015.0001.00 | cut-paper work | Framed under glass paper cutting, navy blue paper | Range, Cir 01/01/1975 - 12/31/1999 | Framed under glass paper cutting, navy blue paper bacground, cream colored paper cut with two ships facing eachother. The left has the name Nancy cut out underneath the ship and the right one is Cora cut out underneath the ship. A sun with gold foil paper backing is overhead. At the bottom are the cut out words "Free Trade & Sailors Rights." Some of the cuttings are embossed with pin sized holes. Intricate cutwork surrounds the two ships. On the back "On loan from Thomas Foy Hubbard - this scrimshaw was orginally obtained from some seaman by James Foy (1813-1874) who operated a hardware store and ship chandlery in Baltimore at No. 64s Calvert St. just north of Pratt Street." Other text under the above "Given by Miss Harriet Foy Plummer, granddaughter of Mr. Foy, to her nephew, Thomas F. Hubbard. Condition: good, white paper has faded some. | ![]() | View | |||
| 3 | 0000.0692.0010.00 | glass plates | Back of 104 Mulberry Street, St. Michaels | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | Range, Cir 01/01/1895 - 12/31/1915 | Back of 104 MULBERRY STREET (KEITHLEY HOME) IN FOREGROUND AND CORA BENSON'S BOARDING HOUSE; other Mulberry Street houses, St. Lukes Methodist Church and Christ Church in background Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS<CR><CR>Glass plate located in CSA 12 D 3 | ![]() | View | ||
| 4 | 1997.0068.0001.00 | models | Full rigged model of skipjack CORA IV made by Timo | Cole, Timothy __Creator | After 01/01/1969 - | Full rigged model of skipjack CORA IV made by Timothy Cole for donor, in heavy wood & steel case, 1/2" scale, made from lines of original vessel, highly detailed including trailboards & rigging parts, "antiques" sails, shown with push boat (no engine), complete with one dredge, name on one side only. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 5 | 0000.0784.0006.00 | negatives | GAFF-RIGGED YAWL, PROBABLY THE "CORA" Old Subjec | GAFF-RIGGED YAWL, PROBABLY THE "CORA" Old Subject Fields: RECREATIONAL SAIL VESSELS | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 6 | 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 | ||||
| 7 | 0000.1242.0156.00 | photographic prints | Yawl Yacht, possibly CORA anchored with log canoes | Circa 8/12/1904 01/01/1904 | Jacob Giles Morris's yawl yacht CORA anchored with main and mizzen set, main topsail partly lowered, with log canoes in background, likely for the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club regatta. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 8 | 0000.1242.0169.00 | photographic prints | Sailboat CORA | Range, Exa 01/01/1905 - 12/31/1905 | Sailboat CORA | No image URL. | View | |||
| 9 | 0000.1242.0170.00 | photographic prints | LARK design tacking in front of anchored yawl CORA | Range, Exa 01/01/1905 - 12/31/1905 | LARK, built by C. Lowndes and J. Graham Johnson from plans in the Rudder magazine, tacking in front of Morris's yawl, CORA | No image URL. | View | |||
| 10 | 0000.2033.0067.00 | postcards | Post Card with black and white image | Range, Cir 01/01/1901 - 10/10/1907 | Post Card with black and white image of residence of L.C. Caltrider in Arcadia, Md. From Cora to Mrs. Emma Wilson. Undivided back. Postmarked October 10, 1907. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 11 | 0000.2033.0081.00 | postcards | Black and white image of building | Range, Cir 03/01/1907 - 12/31/1915 | Black and white image of building in Bentley Springs, Md. Divided back. Unsent. To Miss Cora Kline. Text reads: "Second window from top is where I fell off and hit on railroad slab form." | No image URL. | View | |||
| 12 | 0000.2042.0241.00 | postcards | M.E. Church, Dublin, MD. | Recto contains full black and white image of white church with surrounding fence and trees, with title in white writing in bottom right center. Verso contains one cent US postage. To "Miss Cora Saudere, 200 N Payson St., Baltimore, Md." Message reads "We are having a [ill] time up here. We are on a real farm. With love, [ill] Huggins, Hilda, Florence Le Maitre" | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 13 | 1986.0008.0016.00 | tintypes | Photograph of Cora Elizabeth Dodson . Family Portr | Circa 01/01/1880 - | Photograph of Cora Elizabeth Dodson . Family Portraits of the Dodson's and Relatives Subject: Cora E Dodson | No image URL. | View | |||
| 14 | 1986.0008.0018.00 | tintypes | Photograph of Cora Elizabeth Dodson? Family Portr | Circa 01/01/1880 - | Photograph of Cora Elizabeth Dodson? Family Portraits of the Dodson's and Relatives Subject: Cora E Dodson | No image URL. | View | |||
| 15 | 1986.0008.0020.00 | tintypes | Photograph of Cora Nepoleon Dodson with her mother | Circa 01/01/1880 - | Photograph of Cora Nepoleon Dodson with her mother Jane Blades Dodson Family Portraits of the Dodson's and Relatives Subject: Jane B Dodson Subject: Cora E Dodson | No image URL. | View |
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