LaForrest L. Simmons

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Fetch?Row IDCatalog #Object NameTitleArtist/MakerDate MadePlace MadeDescriptionFull ImageCBMM Cat. Page
10000.1134.0209.00photographic printsDECK OF DECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS Old SubjeExact 05/12/1940 - 05/12/1940DECK OF DECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS Old Subject Fields: VESSELS, POWER, DECK & HULL; FREIGHT POWER VESSELSNo image URL.View
20000.1134.0211.00photographic printsDECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS AT A DOCK, FROM THEExact 05/12/1940 - 05/12/1940Baltimore - MDDECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS AT A DOCK, FROM THE BOW Place: BALTIMORE, MD Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELSNo image URL.View
30000.1134.0223.00photographic printsDECK OF LAFORREST L. SIMMONS, PERHAPS UNDER CONVERExact 03/03/1932 - 03/03/1932DECK OF LAFORREST L. SIMMONS, PERHAPS UNDER CONVERSION FROM SCHOONER TO DECK BOAT Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELS; CONVERSION, SHIPBUILDINGNo image URL.View
40000.1134.0327.00photographic printsDECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS WITH A DECKLOAD OFRange,Exac 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MDDECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS WITH A DECKLOAD OF LUMBER IN CURTIS CREEK, MD Place: CURTIS CREEK, MD Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELSNo image URL.View
50000.1134.0328.00photographic printsDECKBOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS WITH A DECKLOAD OF LRange,Exac 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MDDECKBOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS WITH A DECKLOAD OF LUMBER AND PART OF DECK BOAT EFFIE M. LEWIS, SMITH'S SHIPYARD, CURTIS CREEK, MD Place: CURTIS CREEK, MD Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELSNo image URL.View
60000.1134.0329.00photographic printsDECK BOAT EFFIE M. LEWIS AT A DOCK AT SMITH'S SHIPRange,Exac 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MDDECK BOAT EFFIE M. LEWIS AT A DOCK AT SMITH'S SHIPYARD, CURTIS CREEK, MD, WITH A SLICE OF LAFORREST L. SIMMONS VISIBLE AT LEFT Place: CURTIS CREEK, MD Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELSNo image URL.View
70000.1134.0359.00photographic printsFORESTAYSAIL CLUB IRON FROM LAFORREST L. SIMMONS,FORESTAYSAIL CLUB IRON FROM LAFORREST L. SIMMONS, A SCHOONER CONVERTED TO A DECK BOAT Old Subject Fields: VESSELS, SAIL, RIGGING; SAIL VESSELS, SCHOONERSNo image URL.View
80000.1134.0360.00photographic printsMASTHEAD IRON WITH ROUND AND SQUARE HOLES, FOR TOPMASTHEAD IRON WITH ROUND AND SQUARE HOLES, FOR TOPMAST BUTT AND FOREMAST HEAD, FROM LAFORREST L. SIMMONS, SCHOONER CONVERTED TO A DECK BOAT Old Subject Fields: VESSELS, SAIL, RIGGING; SAIL VESSELS, SCHOONERSNo image URL.View
90000.1290.0808.00photographic printsSchooner LaForrest L. Simmons as a power boatSchooner LaForrest L. Simmons as a powerboat; seen from starboard side; large deckhouse aft; short spar and boom forward; she is docked.No image URL.View
100000.1290.4384.00photographic printsMan on bowsprit of schooner LaForrest L. SimmonsRange, Exa 01/01/1939 - 12/31/1939Smith's Shipyard - Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MDMan on bowsprit of schooner LaForrest L. Simmons; he is unidentified; shows trailboards and billethead "when vessel was being converted to power--1939...R. H. Burgess secured the trailboards from Smith for $1 the pair as they had been cast onto a scrap pile at the shipyard. His sister kept the billethead in the basement of her home at the shipyard. From print loaned by J. Willis Smith, Curtis Crk, Balto. Md."No image URL.View
110000.1290.4529.00photographsPainting by Louis Feuchter of schooners anchoredRange, Exa 01/01/1938 - 12/31/1938Baltimore - Canton Hollow, Patapsco - Western Shore - MDPainting by Louis Feuchter of schooners "anchored in Canton Hollow, Baltimore..the trim two-topmast schooner LaForrest L. Simmons, built at Milford, Delaware, in 1909, and the badly hogged Stephen Chase built in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1876. Not long after this water color was made in 1938 the Simmons was converted into a power boat and the Chase was abandoned in Curtis Creek,Baltimore Courtesy, Walter Feuchter" (information on caption taped to back of print); painting signed and dated 38; "The Mariners' Museum" stamped on back; see Burgess, Louis Feuchter Chesapeake Bay Artist, last page.No image URL.View
128888.0191.0000research (document genres)"Notebook on Shipwrecks" research, MoaleMoale, H. Richardcirca 2000sResearch compiled by author Richard Moale while writing "Notebook on Shipwrecks" publishe din 2010. Includes, documentation of vessels, letters, and other data that did not go into the book.CBMM catalog imageView
132006.0068.0217.00trail boardsStarboard trail board from LAFORREST L. SIMMONSStarboard trail board from LAFORREST L. SIMMONS.CBMM catalog imageView
142006.0068.0216.00trail boardsPort trail board from LAFORREST L. SIMMONSPort trail board from LAFORREST L. SIMMONS.CBMM catalog imageView

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