Louise Miles

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Type: Skipjack

Year: 1899

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Location: Crab Island

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Fetch?Row IDCatalog #Object NameTitleArtist/MakerDate MadePlace MadeDescriptionFull ImageCBMM Cat. Page
18888.0090.0000.00documentsPenso PapersThis collection begins on CSC 15B1 and continues on 15B2, 15B3, and 15B4. One oversize folder is located in RR FF 3; the contents have 2 copies and a negative of sketch of two people in the Racing dinghy Penguin.No image URL.View
22003.0013.0001.01log canoes (model)BELLE M. CRANELambdin, Robert D __CreatorCirca 1930Log canoe model of the BELLE M. CRANE, but misspelled on bow "BELL M. CRAIN." Model has white topsides, red bottom, yellow cove stripe and bow sprit braces. Cotton sails, brown with age, two masts, jib boom, gull wing rig fore and main, one hiking board, and an oar, both in boat, cotton string for all lines, rudder, tiller. Interior painted an orange yellow; removeable chocks at both mast partners, centerboard pull, hatch cover over lazarette on skipper's seat. The model was built by Robert D. Lambdin (1849-1938) to represent the then-surviving log canoe, BELLE M. CRANE (built in 1879). Possibly made for owner of the canoe, Ruth Starr Rose, the only log canoe owner and skipper of her day. Model has cradle. Condition: Fair. Sails in disrepair, brown and holes: very fragile. Topside paint chipping. Cotton lines fragile. Sails located in CSA 7A2CBMM catalog imageView
31999.0002.0001.00modelsBuilder's half model of Quadrant class sloop, mounHartge, Laurence W __CreatorRange, Exa 01/01/1952 - 01/01/1953Hartge Yacht Yard - Galesville - MDBuilder'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.CBMM catalog imageView
48888.0115.0000.00papersPapers of John MollJohn Moll Collection<CR><CR>This collection is comprised of newspaper clippings, notes, articles, newsletters, drawings, and correspondence by and relating to John Moll<CR><CR>Background:<CR>This collection was donated by Deborah Moll from the collection of her father, John Moll, Eastern Shore artist.Biographical Background:Mr. Moll did oils and watercolors of Chesapeake Bay scenes, often including carefully detailed skipjacks and log canoes. He also made lithographs, doing the work himself on the printing stone.Mr. Moll lived in Oxford since 1946 and was a former senior warden of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity and a charter member of the Academy of the Arts in Easton and of the Rehoboth, Del., Art league.In 1976, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Salisbury State College.A native of Reading, Pa., he was educated there and at the School of Industrial Arts in Philadelphia and the Wilmington Academy of Art in Wilmington, Del.He was an instructor at the Wilmington school until World War II, when he worked as a draftsman for a Wilmington shipbuilding company, the Dravo Corp. He retired in 1986.He died in February, 1991. He was 81.[Edited from the Baltimore Sun obituary for John Moll, Feb. 21, 1991]Scope and content:The materials are concerned with the work and publicity of John Moll. Subjects:Chesapeake and Watermen, by James MichenerEastern ShoreHeraldryArtNo image URL.View
50000.1295.0640.00photographic printsSkipjacks Katie May and Louise MilesDeal Island - Deal Island - Somerset - Tangier Sound - Eastern Shore - MDSkipjacks Katie May and Louise Miles aground at pier at Deal Island For source, see 1295.0001.No image URL.View
62006.0068.0223.00trail boardsStarboard trail board from LOUISE MILESStarboard trail board from LOUISE MILES. Green with gold letters. Green circle and heart on right. Patriotic imagery on left.CBMM catalog imageView
72006.0068.0222.00trail boardsPort trail board from LOUISE MILESPort trail board from LOUISE MILES. Green with gold letters. Leaf and vine design on left. Patriotic imagery on right.CBMM catalog imageView

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