Eleanor
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Skipjack
Year: 1901
Builder: Nicholas B. Stevens
Location: Oxford
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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 | 0000.0494.0009.00 | SCHOONER "ELEANOR A. PERCY", 6 MASTED; From old Re | Douglas Photos, __Photographer | SCHOONER "ELEANOR A. PERCY", 6 MASTED; From old Remarks field: BUILT 1900, BATH, MAINE Old Subject Fields: SAIL VESSELS, SCHOONERS | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 2 | 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 | ||||
| 3 | 0000.1290.2092.00 | photographic prints | 6-masted schooner Eleanor A Percy docked | 6-masted schooner Eleanor A Percy docked "a frequent caller in the Hampton Roads area in the early years of this century [20th]. The log book from this vessel, containing the fate of the vessel and which drifted about the seas fot two years, is in the collection of The Mariners Museum." | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 4 | 0000.1290.2093.00 | photographic prints | 6-masted schooner Eleanor A Percy' s logbook | 6-masted schooner Eleanor A Percy's logbook--two water-damaged pages; See 1290.2092 for more information. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 5 | 0000.1290.3977.00 | photographic prints | Schooner Eleanor A. Percy anchored near shipyard | Schooner Eleanor A. Percy anchored near a shipyard, probably in Bath (see photo credit bottom right). "The Mariners' Museum" stamped on back of print. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 6 | 0000.0901.1568.00 | photographs | 6-MASTED SCHOONER "ELEANOR A. PERCY" AT SHIPYARD.; | Range,Exac 01/01/1900 - 12/31/1900 | 6-MASTED SCHOONER "ELEANOR A. PERCY" AT SHIPYARD.; From old Remarks field: SCHOONERS SECTION Old Subject Fields: SAIL VESSELS, SCHOONERS; VESSELS, SAIL, DECK & HULL | No image URL. | View |
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