Fortune
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Skipjack
Year: 1978
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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 | 0000.0791.0022.00 | "THE VILLA" ON GLEBE NECK, BUILT IN 1840s BY RICHA | "THE VILLA" ON GLEBE NECK, BUILT IN 1840s BY RICHARD FORTUNE Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS | No image URL. | View | |||||
| 2 | 1995.0017.0002.00 | advertisements | ADVERTISEMENT FOR DODGE BOATS FROM FORTUNE MAGAZIN | Range,Circ 01/01/1931 - 12/31/1931 | ADVERTISEMENT FOR DODGE BOATS FROM FORTUNE MAGAZINE, SHOWS MOTOR BOAT UNDERWAY DRIVEN BY A WOMAN WITH A MAN AND CHILD PASSENGERS, SPANISH STYLE HOUSE IN BACKGROUND, PALM TREES IN FOREGROUND, APPEARS TO BEAN INLAND WATERWAY--FLORIDA PERHAPS, TEXT BELOW. Materials: INK, PAPER Negative #: N2024.R8 |  | View | |||
| 3 | 1993.0058.0001.00 | advertisements | ADVERTISEMENT IN FORTUNE MAGAZINE,1930,FOR 16' DOD | Fortune Magazine, __Creator ||Wilson, E A __Designer | Range,Exac 01/01/1930 - 12/31/1930 | ADVERTISEMENT IN FORTUNE MAGAZINE,1930,FOR 16' DODGE BOAT WITH DEPICTION OF 5 BOATS AND AD COPY STRESSING STATUS,SPEED. Materials: INK,PAPER Colors: POLYCHROME Associated Place: NEWPORT NEWS, VA Negative #: X2022 R14 |  | View | ||
| 4 | 8888.0054.0000.00 | documents | THOMAS C. GILLMER<CR>MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Thomas | Exact 01/01/1981 - 12/31/1993 | THOMAS C. GILLMER<CR>MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Thomas C.Gillmer was born in 1911 at Warren, Ohio. He became interested in ships at an early age, entering the U.S. Naval Academy and graduating in 1935. During the late 1930s he served aboard light cruisers in the Pacific and Mediterranean. During World War II he served as an instructor in naval construction, damage control, and marine engineering at the Naval Academy, eventually becoming chairman of the naval engineering department. In 1952 Gillmer wrote Naval Construction a Ship Stability, a basic text still in use in the naval architecture program at the Academy. He retired from active teaching at the Academy in 1967 and began to devote full time to the design of yachts and ship replicas. His first successful yacht design was the 1946 Blue Moon. Subsequent designs were the Southern Cross and Seawind series. He designed Pride of Baltimore 3,(1976-77), the pungy Lady Maryland (1979), and Pride 2L Baltimore 11. (1988). Most recently Gillmer prepared a study of the USS Constitution for her overhaul by the navy. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.See also Oral History tape No. 93 with transcript and list of books and articles.The manuscript collection consists of six papers:1. "Signposts Towards the Origin of Ship Design," prepared for the 5th Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, 1 October 1981.2. "Evolving Ship Design Technology As Revealed in Wrecks of Post Medieval Ships." 3rd International Symposium of Boat and Ship Archeology, Stockholm, 1982.3. "Authentic Replica Ships: Theory and Practice." International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Delphi, Greece, August 1987.4. "The Importance of Skeleton First Ship Construction to the Development of Rational Ship Design." International Symposium on Ship and Boat Archeology, Amsterdam 1988.5. "The Second Pride of Baltimore, Her Design and Construction." 9th Sailing Yacht Symposium, Annapolis 1989.6. "USS Constitution: An Assessment for Her Future." Naval History Symposium, Annapolis 1993. Subject: Thomas C Gillmer | No image URL. | View | |||
| 5 | 2025.0003.0003 | instruments | OLT Regular Duck Call | Philip S. Olt Company __Manufacturer | c. 1990s | Pekin - IL | A black plastic duck call by OLT. Call reads "P.S. OLT Pekin, Illinois. Regular Duck Call Model No. D-2"<br /><br />The Olt D-2 duck call, created in the early 1900s, became legendary for its realistic mallard sound. Though the original company closed in 2002, hunters continued modifying the call to suit different environments, leading to regional styles like the Arkansas Cutdown. Today, modern companies have revived and improved on the D-2’s design, keeping its legacy alive among duck hunters. |  | View | |
| 6 | 2025.0003.0002 | instruments | 800 goose call | Philip S. Olt Company __Manufacturer | c. 1990s | Pekin - IL | A wooden OLT brand goose call. Call rads "800 Goose Call, P.S. OLT Co. Pekin, ILL." The call includes a green woven lanyard used to hand the call around a hunters neck.<br /><br />Advertised as "TrueTone and Easy to Blow" sold by OLT Game and Bird Calls founded by Philip S. Olt of Pekin Illinois. |  | View | |
| 7 | 1999.0002.0001.00 | models | Builder's half model of Quadrant class sloop, moun | Hartge, Laurence W __Creator | Range, Exa 01/01/1952 - 01/01/1953 | Hartge Yacht Yard - Galesville - MD | Builder's half model of Quadrant class sloop, mounted with two screws onto masonite back board; hull painted red and white, grey sails and red keel and rudder paitned onto backboard; in pencil "ORIGINAL/ QUADRANT/ MODEL/ WINTER/ 1952-53/ 1ST QUADRANT BUILT 1953/ L HARTGE/ 1952"; 3 holes for mounting to wall. Laurence Hartge was known for conceiving "economy yacht" style vessels to make these vessels more easily available to sailors. The Quadrant Class sloops were deemed to be Condition: Paint worn in places, surface dirt, corners of backboard chipped. Material: Wood (pine?), masonite, paint, screws. Made by donor-designer of Quadrant class sloop built by Hartge Yacht Yard. |  | View | |
| 8 | 0000.2050.1127 | postcards | Econo Travel Motel of Easton | U.S.A. | Color; overhead view of two-story Econo-Travel Motor hotel; a few cars in parking lot; tall roadside sign for motel left; trees and hillside in background; printed on back, "Spend a night, not a fortune. First class room sat evonomy prices. Air conditioned. Electric heat. Free television. Deluxe mattresses. Full bath. Telephone. Large rooms. Free directory available." |  | View | |||
| 9 | 1989.0007.0001.01 | runabouts | Shuttlecock, Dodge utility runabout | Dodge Boat & Plane Corp, __Creator | 1935 | Newport News - VA | A 16 foot utility runabout Model 301 Dodge boat called Shuttlecock built by Horace E. Dodge. It is carvel planked of mahogany and oak, painted white on the bottom with fiberglass added later. It’s serial number is #13D640. |  | View | |
| 10 | 2000.0049.0001.00 | sculpture (visual work) | Painted wooden silhouette of man skulling crabbing | Evans, Waverly __Creator | Circa 01/01/2000 - | Painted wooden silhouette of man skulling crabbing skiff with oar, dip net made from wire and plastic netting stowed under thwart, boat painted; red hull, white sides, turquoise interior, made by Waverly Evans Condition: excellent. |  | View | ||
| 11 | 1997.0046.0001.00 | ships logs | Log book of Albemarle | Forbes, William __Writer | Log book of the Navassa Phosphate Company's Chesapeake Bay sailing vessel (bark) Albemarle of Baltimore documenting voyages between Baltimore and Navassa Island for guano. 70 pages, stiff board covers with decorative paper in blue and brown. Smaller loose pages in back. Material: Paper, cotton binding, cardboard, ink. Presumably kept by Capt Wm Forbes, found in grandmothers attic (Glenda Harris) |  | View | |||
| 12 | 1969.0050.0001.00 | swan decoys | Tundra swan decoy | Barnes, Samuel T __Creator ||Holly, James T __Creator | Circa 1890 | Tundra Swan decoy, by Sam Barnes or James Holly of Havre de Grace. Number one of a small series of swan decoys by this maker; number three of this series is in collection of the Shelburne Museum; the second is in a private collection. Condition: Fair, repair work to neck, paint chipped from tail, crack in back repaired w/wood putty. See Decoy Magazine (March/April 2007), pp. 42-3; also Decoy Magazine (March/April 1993) pp. 9-10 for discussion of the maker of this decoy. |  | View | ||
| 13 | 1983.0016.0001.00 | tobacco prize machines | Tobacco prize machine. Mechanism used to squeeze | Tobacco prize machine. Mechanism used to squeeze tobacco into hogshead. Screw press. Condition: Needs work. Material: some oak. <CR>Provenance: Rosehill, Grambrills, Md. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 14 | 1997.0056.0001.00 | watercolors (paintings) | Clipper schooner Young Brutus by Roux | Roux, Antoine __Artist | Circa 1819 | Marseilles - France | Clipper schooner Young Brutus attributed to Antoine Roux Jr., starboard view of ship under sail heading into the port at Marseilles, France, crew visible on deck including several Black men, black and white hulled vessel flying US flag and house flag, black lower border with vessel name and capt name.<br /><br />The Roux family were well known for their ships portraits. Living in Marseilles port district they were able to observe many different ships. |  | View |
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