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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 | 8888.0147.0000.00 | correspondence by function --papers (document genres) | Ernest Tucker Correspondence | Tucker, Ernest | 1958-1986 | The contents of this collection include four boxes of correspondence with related boat plans and brochures related to mechanical components for outfitting cruisers. There is an additional box of resource material for yacht design taken from the magazines Rudder, Yachting, and The Chesapeake Skipper. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 2 | 8888.0139.0000.00 | papers (document genres) | Robert Stanton Fox papers | 1946-1992 | Materials about Stanton Fox and his career, naval architiceture and yacht brokerage in MA as well as his time in the Eastern Shore, Benoni Point, where he contiuned his career and became a CBMM member. Materials include design drawings, various documents related to Fox’s brokerage business during his time on the Eastern Shore are included in the collection. Also includes photo collection PH 1405.<br /> | No image URL. | View | |||
| 3 | 0000.1290.3008.00 | photographic prints | Steamboat Queen Anne under way | Steamboat Queen Anne under way, perhaps in Patapsco River. "Queen Anne transported passngers from Baltimore to Queenstown and Love Point to connect with trains bound for seashore points." "The Mariners' Museum" stamped on back. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 4 | 0000.1361.0003 | photographic prints | Two hunters aiming shotguns from shore blind atop a shed or house | A. Aubrey Bodine | 11/20/1960 | Queene Anne's County | Two hunters aiming shotguns from shore blind atop a shed or house; reeds in foreground; blind overlooks Chester River in Queen Anne's County; date may be date of publication in Baltimore Sun, picture probably made earlier. | ![]() | View | |
| 5 | 0000.0840.0006.00 | photographs | TUCKAHOE RIVER, QUEEN ANNE, MD Old Subject Field | TUCKAHOE RIVER, QUEEN ANNE, MD Old Subject Fields: CANALS & WATERWAYS; QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 6 | 0000.0901.1963.00 | photographs | SIDE-WHEEL STEAMERS "RIVER QUEEN" & "ISLAND HOME" | SIDE-WHEEL STEAMERS "RIVER QUEEN" & "ISLAND HOME" AT PIER.; From old Remarks field: STEAMERS SECTION. CAT-BOATS ANCHORED IN FOREGROUND. MUCH EXTRANEOUS MARKS ON PRINT. Old Subject Fields: STEAMBOATS, AT HARBOR OR LANDING | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 7 | 0000.1290.4435.00 | photographs | WOMEN AND CHILDREN WAITING FOR STEAMBOAT AT BOOKER | Bookers Wharf - Queen Anne - Chester River - Eastern Shore - MD | Women and children waiting for steamboat at Booker's Wharf on the Chester River. Identification in donor's hand on back of print; excellent quality; see steamboats out of Baltimore, P102. Place is Anne Arundel County, MD. Same as 960.210, from which the above description was copied; place is in error; it is Booker's Wharf on Chester River in Queen Anne's County, Western Shore; mounted on cardboard. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 8 | 0000.2050.1446 | postcards | Small boat in Tuckahoe River | "Tuckahoe River, Queen Anner, Md." printed on card; shows two men in small outboard motorboat moving down the river between wooded and marsh-covered shores; bridge in background | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 9 | 1985.0005.0001.00 | steering wheels | Wood steering wheel reportedly from the sidewheel | Wood steering wheel reportedly from the sidewheel paddle steamer RIVER QUEEN. The wheel has 10 spokes connected to the metal brass hub. On the outer ring there are 10 inlaid metal stars and 10 inlaid wood diamonds. The RIVER QUEEN was built in 1864 and was used by President Lincoln during the Civil War. Condition: The ends of 3 spokes are loose and had been repaired at an earlier time, heavily varnished & discolored. Material: Oak? with metal hub, brass. | ![]() | View |
Created 2026 by Don Barker, CBMM volunteer, for the Chesapeake Shipbuilding Project. shipbuilding@sailingworkboats.es