Emerett
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Schooner
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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 | 8888.0098.0000.00 | 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 | ||||
| 2 | 0000.1295.3143.00 | photographic prints | "Trees sprout from the rotting timbers of the four | Alexandria - Potomac River - Western Shore - VA | "Trees sprout from the rotting timbers of the four-masted schooner Emerett as she lay in the Potomac River off a marina at Alexandria Virginia" (Caption glued to print.) No date. For source, see 1290.0001. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 3 | 0000.1290.0945.00 | photographic prints | 4-masted schooner Emerett dismasted | Norfolk - VA | 4-masted schooner Emerett at Norfolk dock after being distmasted at sea; stump of one mast visible; men on dock and on vessel handling painter, very small; tug in background. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 4 | 0000.1290.0946.00 | photographic prints | 4-masted schooner Emerett at Redman & Vane dock. | Range, Cir 01/01/1929 - 12/31/0929 | Redman & Vane Shipyard - Baltimore - Baltimore Harbor - Western Shore - MD | 4-masted schooner Emerett at Redman & Vane dock; she is seen from astern; paddle-wheel steamer to port. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 5 | 0000.1290.0947.00 | photographic prints | 4-masted schooner Emerett as a hulk at Hunting Cre | Alexandria - Fairfax - Hunting Creek - Western Shore - VA | 4-masted schooner Emerett as hulk tied to shore of Hunting Creek; seen from port bow; stump of spanker, no other masts shown; man on shore. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 6 | 0000.1290.0948.00 | photographic prints | 4-masted schooner Emerett as hulk tied to shore of | Alexandria - Fairfax - Hunting Creek - Western Shore - VA | 4-masted schooner Emerett as hulk tied to shore of Hunting Creek; seen from port bow; stump of spanker, no other masts shown. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 7 | 0000.1290.1038.00 | photographic prints | 4-masted schooner Emerett under sail | 4-masted schooner Emerett under sail, seen from port side; in this picture, she is the Cumberland Queen, her first name. "The Mariners' Musuem" stamped on back. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 8 | 0000.1290.1048.00 | photographic prints | 4-masted schooner Emerett docked, dismasted | Range, Exa 01/01/1931 - 12/31/1931 | Norfolk - VA | 4-masted schooner Emerett docked, dismasted; shown in Norfolk, 1931. Tug in background may have towed her into port. Much of her deck and rails are gone; stump of jigger, but no other masts visible. "The Mariners' Museum" stamped on back of print. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 9 | 0000.1290.1049.00 | photographic prints | 4-masted schooner Emerett as a sand and gravel bar | Alexandria - Potomac River - Western Shore - VA | 4-masted schooner Emerett as a sand and gravel barge alongside Alexandria shoreline; seen from port side; only the stump of the jigger visible; stem and bowsprit appear intact. "The Emerett shown shortly after she was brought to Alexandria for use as a sand and gravel barge. Photo by: Fred Tilp" typed on paper glued to print. "The Mariners' Museum" stamped on back of print. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 10 | 0000.1290.3332.00 | photographic prints | Hulk of four-masted schooner Emerett as gravel sto | Alexandria - Western Shore - VA | Hulk of four-masted schooner "Emerett as gravel storage barge in Alexandria, Virginia;" she is next to shoreline; gravel not visible; print from damaged negaative. "The Mariners' Museum" stamped on back. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 11 | 0000.1290.3654.00 | photographic prints | Dismasted schooner Emerett along a shore | Range, Exa 12/21/1932 - 03/21/1933 | Alexandria - Fairfax - Hunting Creek - Western Shore - VA | Dismasted schooner Emerett along a shore; seen from port bow; part of mizzen mast still in place. | No image URL. | View |
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