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Search mode: Exact Name. Search phrase(s): "LaForrest L. Simmons"; "LaForrest L Simmons". Results returned: 14. Results displayed in this table: 14.
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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 | 0000.1134.0209.00 | photographic prints | DECK OF DECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS Old Subje | Exact 05/12/1940 - 05/12/1940 | DECK OF DECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS Old Subject Fields: VESSELS, POWER, DECK & HULL; FREIGHT POWER VESSELS | No image URL. | View | |||
| 2 | 0000.1134.0211.00 | photographic prints | DECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS AT A DOCK, FROM THE | Exact 05/12/1940 - 05/12/1940 | Baltimore - MD | DECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS AT A DOCK, FROM THE BOW Place: BALTIMORE, MD Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELS | No image URL. | View | ||
| 3 | 0000.1134.0223.00 | photographic prints | DECK OF LAFORREST L. SIMMONS, PERHAPS UNDER CONVER | Exact 03/03/1932 - 03/03/1932 | DECK OF LAFORREST L. SIMMONS, PERHAPS UNDER CONVERSION FROM SCHOONER TO DECK BOAT Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELS; CONVERSION, SHIPBUILDING | No image URL. | View | |||
| 4 | 0000.1134.0327.00 | photographic prints | DECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS WITH A DECKLOAD OF | Range,Exac 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941 | Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD | DECK BOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS WITH A DECKLOAD OF LUMBER IN CURTIS CREEK, MD Place: CURTIS CREEK, MD Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELS | No image URL. | View | ||
| 5 | 0000.1134.0328.00 | photographic prints | DECKBOAT LAFORREST L. SIMMONS WITH A DECKLOAD OF L | Range,Exac 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941 | Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD | DECKBOAT 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 VESSELS | No image URL. | View | ||
| 6 | 0000.1134.0329.00 | photographic prints | DECK BOAT EFFIE M. LEWIS AT A DOCK AT SMITH'S SHIP | Range,Exac 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941 | Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD | DECK 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 VESSELS | No image URL. | View | ||
| 7 | 0000.1134.0359.00 | photographic prints | FORESTAYSAIL 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, SCHOONERS | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 8 | 0000.1134.0360.00 | photographic prints | MASTHEAD IRON WITH ROUND AND SQUARE HOLES, FOR TOP | MASTHEAD 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, SCHOONERS | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 9 | 0000.1290.0808.00 | photographic prints | Schooner LaForrest L. Simmons as a power boat | Schooner 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 | ||||
| 10 | 0000.1290.4384.00 | photographic prints | Man on bowsprit of schooner LaForrest L. Simmons | Range, Exa 01/01/1939 - 12/31/1939 | Smith's Shipyard - Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD | Man 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 | ||
| 11 | 0000.1290.4529.00 | photographs | Painting by Louis Feuchter of schooners anchored | Range, Exa 01/01/1938 - 12/31/1938 | Baltimore - Canton Hollow, Patapsco - Western Shore - MD | Painting 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 | ||
| 12 | 8888.0191.0000 | research (document genres) | "Notebook on Shipwrecks" research, Moale | Moale, H. Richard | circa 2000s | Research 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. | ![]() | View | ||
| 13 | 2006.0068.0217.00 | trail boards | Starboard trail board from LAFORREST L. SIMMONS | Starboard trail board from LAFORREST L. SIMMONS. | ![]() | View | ||||
| 14 | 2006.0068.0216.00 | trail boards | Port trail board from LAFORREST L. SIMMONS | Port trail board from LAFORREST L. SIMMONS. | ![]() | View |
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