Ruth Conway

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Fetch?	Row ID	Catalog #	Object Name	Title	Artist/Maker	Date Made	Place Made	Description	Full Image	CBMM Cat. Page
	1	8888.0046.0000.00	documents	Cambridge, Maryland Custom Bureau Enrollment and L		Exact 02/01/1988 -		Cambridge, Maryland Custom Bureau Enrollment and License Certificates (1923 - 1958)The collection is comprised of 377 vessel enrollment records for Cambridge, Maryland dating between 1923 and 1958.BackgroundAlthough it is unclear who saved the Cambridge enrollment records, they were donated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by Mr. Russ Rippell in 1993.SubjectsChesapeake Bay vessels, 1920s-1950s; Maryland Custom Bureau Records; Vessel Enrollment Records; Cambridge, MD--History; Maryland--HistoryCambridge, Maryland Enrollment Records:Please see attached spreadsheet for a specific listing by Doc. #. The enrollment records were arranged chronologically	No image URL.	View
	2	8888.0044.0000	documents	Oystering Ephemera Collection				An artificial manuscript collection of materials relating to the oyster industry in the Chesapeake Bay there are 2 series in this collection from different sources.<br /><br />The Series 1 collection consists mostly of letterheads, billheads, price lists, trade cards, labels, and related items, including correspondence for a large number of oyster and seafood packing houses, some of which also dealt with fruit packing. Many of these companies were based in Baltimore, Maryland, but packers in Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut are also represented. Other items in the collection include envelopes, checks, mailing tags, receipts, advertisements, recipe booklets, and ledgers.<br /><br />The Series 2 collection includes photographs and stereoviews, oyster advertising material, restaurant menus, trade cards, comics, sheet music, post cards, business receipts, and books/booklets. The collection is organized by category, Chesapeake related, and general oyster material and was collected by Michele and Clifford Krainik.		View
	3	0000.0971.0001.00	negatives	UNIDENTIFIED BUGEYE AND SKIPJACK IN FOREGROUND WIT			No Address - Cambridge - Dorchester - Eastern Shore - MD - 21613 - USA	UNIDENTIFIED BUGEYE AND SKIPJACK IN FOREGROUND WITH FREIGHT BOATS B. F. TRAVERS AND RUTH CONWAY PARTIALLY OBSCURED IN BACKGROUND; From old Remarks field: COPIED FROM PRINT RETURNED TO DONOR; SEE JOHN EARLE FILE UNDER SCHOONERS, GRACIE MAY Place: CAMBRIDGE, MD Old Subject Fields: BROGAN OR BUGEYE, SAIL VESSELS; SAIL VESSELS, SCHOONERS; DOCKS, HARBORS, & PIERS	No image URL.	View
	4	0000.1134.0222.00	photographic prints	DECK BOAT RUTH CONWAY AT A DOCK NEXT TO A WAREHOUS		Range,Circ 01/01/1939 - 12/31/1939	Baltimore - MD	DECK BOAT RUTH CONWAY AT A DOCK NEXT TO A WAREHOUSE; From old Remarks field: DATE INFERRED FROM DATES ON ADJOINING PICTURES Place: BALTIMORE, MD Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELS; DOCKS, HARBORS, & PIERS	No image URL.	View
	5	0000.1134.0336.00	photographic prints	DECK BOAT RUTH CONWAY UNDER WAY WITH CARGO CONCEAL		Range,Exac 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940		DECK BOAT RUTH CONWAY UNDER WAY WITH CARGO CONCEALED BY TARPAULIN Old Subject Fields: FREIGHT POWER VESSELS	No image URL.	View
	6	0000.1295.0068.00	photographic prints	Bugeye A. E. Parks on railway at Smith's Shipyard			Curtis Bay - Baltimore - Western Shore - MD	Bugeye A. E. Parks on marine railway at Smith's Shipyard with motor vessel Ruth Conway in background; Conway is ex schooner Gracie May. See 1295.0001 for source.	No image URL.	View
	7	0000.1295.1594.00	photographic prints	Schooner Ruth Conway as a power boat		Exact 09/08/1949 -	Cambridge - Dorchester - Choptank River - Eastern Shore - MD	Schooner Ruth Conway as a power boat; she is tied up at Cambridge, MD; seen from port bow; she still has one mast and boom. For source, see 1295.0001.	No image URL.	View
	8	0000.1295.1595.00	photographic prints	Schooner Ruth Conway as a power boat; she is tied		Exact 09/08/1949 -	Cambridge - Dorchester - Choptank River - Eastern Shore - MD	Schooner Ruth Conway as a power boat; she is tied up at Cambridge, MD; seen from stern, showing deckhouse with curtains in upper windows. For source, see 1295.0001.	No image URL.	View
	9	0000.1295.1596.00	photographic prints	Schooner Ruth Conway as a power boat in Curtis Cre		Exact 08/30/1950 -	Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD	Schooner Ruth Conway as a power boat in Curtis Creek; seen from port bow, showing two masts, one boom, no cargo. For source, see 1295.0001.	No image URL.	View
	10	0000.1295.1597.00	photographic prints	Schooner Ruth Conway as a power boat on railway		Range, Cir 06/01/1958 - 06/30/1958	Humphrey's Shipyard - Weems - Lancaster - Carter Creek - Western Shore - VA	Schooner Ruth Conway as a power boat hauled out on a marine railway at Humphrey's shipyard, Weems,VA. Seen from port quarter; shows rudder and propeller and another propeller nearby with two chldren, seated. Ladders on ground and propped against hull. For source, see 1295.0001.	No image URL.	View
	11	0000.1290.2245.00	photographic prints	Buyboat Ruth Conway on Deeagles Railway, Deltavill		Exact 04/01/1958 - 04/01/1958	Deagle's Boatyard - Deltaville - Middlesex - Fishing Bay, Piankatank R - Western Shore - VA	Buyboat Ruth Conway on Deagles Railway, Deltaville, VA. Seen from starboard bow. Photographer's name undecipherable. (She was cconverted to power in 1929.)	No image URL.	View
	12	0000.1290.2246.00	photographic prints	Buyboat Ruth Conway on Deagles Railway, Deltaville				Buyboat Ruth Conway on Deagles Railway, Deltaville, VA. Seen from starboard bow. Photographer's name undecipherable. (She was cconverted to power in 1929.)	No image URL.	View
	13	0000.1295.3182.00	photographic prints	"Ruth Conway...on the marine railway at Smith's sh			Smith's Shipyard - Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD	"Ruth Conway on the marine railway at Smith's Shipyard, Curtis Bay. The vessel still plies the Bay" She was originally the schooner Gracie May. She is seen from port quarter; shape of hull and rudder are visible; she has a two storey deck house; men working, one of them probably at the site of a propeller which is not shown. No date. For source, see 1295.0001.	No image URL.	View
	14	0000.1295.3183.00	photographic prints	Oil screw Ruth Conway "deeply laden with...fertili			Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD	Oil screw "Ruth Conway ...deeply laden with a cargo of fertilizer" in Curtis Creek; (information on caption taped to back of print.) she is seen from port bow with man standing on deck; no bow wave shown, so she may have a stern anchor out. No date. For source, see 1295.0001.	No image URL.	View
	15	0000.1295.3528.00	photographic prints	Power boat, formerly a schooner docked in Cambridg		Exact 05/30/1934 -	Cambridge - Eastern Shore - MD	Power boat, formerly a schooner, docked in Cambridge; "possibly Ruth Conway ex sch Gracie May;" in scrapbook. For source, see 1290.0001.	No image URL.	View
	16	0000.1290.4394.00	photographic prints	Robert H. Burgess standing near display of nautica		Range, Exa 07/01/1953 - 07/31/1953		Robert H. Burgess standing near display of nautical art; shown are billet heads, name boards and trailboards for vessels Harvey H.Conway, Elvira C., The Bangor Ship Bldg Corp, Mystic, Vaughan, Ruth Decker, Mamie A. Mister, Purnell T. White, Apolla, and Chas. G Joyce and a photograph of the Baltimore waterfront. " The Mariners' Museum" stamped on back.	No image URL.	View
	17	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
	18	8888.0020.0000.00	scrapbooks	George D. Olds III Scrapbook<CR><CR>The collection is		Range, Cir 01/01/1955 - 12/31/1961		George D. Olds III Scrapbook<CR><CR>The collection is comprised of a scrapbook of snapshots taken by George D. Olds or members of his family from a boat, c. 1955-61.Biographical BackgroundMr. George D. Olds III of Easton was active in the seafood industry. At one time he owned the Old Salt Seafood Co. This was formed from the Maryland Seafood Co. which bought the Old Salt label and trademark in the 1960s. Old Salt was later adopted as the name of the company. Mr. Olds sold the company in 1977 and resigned as President in early 1980's.Scope and ContentThe scrapbook consists mainly of black and white snapshots taken be family members while cruising on the Bay. Identified subjects include:SubiectsCommercial fishing; work boats; seafood industry.powerboat Sarah Conwaybuy boat in Hampton, VAbuy boat Ruth and Annie of Crisfield setting a purse seine in the Honga River waterfront packing housepound netting in the Coan and Potomac Rivers patent tonging boats, clam boatsphoto of yacht Bounty, built in Solomons, MD Olds II.waterfront warehouse, possibly Coan Riverfor George	No image URL.	View