Thomas H. Kirby
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Bugeye
Year: 1882
Builder: T. H. Kirby
Location: St. Michaels
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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 | 0000.0699.0016.00 | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD, FOOT OF CARPENTER STREET, | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD, FOOT OF CARPENTER STREET, WITH A LARGE YAWL ON THE RAILWAY. Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 2 | 0000.0704.0012.00 | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH SCHOONER AND BUGEYE O | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH SCHOONER AND BUGEYE Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 3 | 0000.0705.0006.00 | SCHOONER AT THE THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH NAVY PO | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | SCHOONER AT THE THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH NAVY POINT IN THE BACKGROUND Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 4 | 0000.0704.0007.00 | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD | No image URL. | View | |||||
| 5 | 1988.0035.0003.00 | booklets | Booklet entitled "St. Michaels Maryland: Reasons f | Civic Betterment League, __Creator | Range, Cir 01/01/1900 - 12/31/1939 | Booklet entitled "St. Michaels Maryland: Reasons for Visiting There, Living There, Doing Business There." Issued by the Civic Betterment League, St. Michaels MD. The booklet contains 24 pages with many advertisemtns of local businesses and several photos. Among the ads is one for Thomas H. Kirby & Sons shipyard and marine railway. Early 20th century. Buff-colored covers. Condition: Poor, staples have rusted, front cover and numerous pages damaged by insects. Subject: Thomas Kirby and Sons |  | View | ||
| 6 | 8888.0077.0000.00 | documents | John. G. Earle Papers:<CR>The collection is a vertic | Range, Cir 01/01/1894 - 12/31/1991 | This collection begins on CSC 15C3 and continues on CSC 15C4.John. G. Earle Papers:The collection is a vertical file of notes, ship plans, letters, drawings, articles, and photographs assembled by John Earle on varied Chesapeake maritime research topics, and individuals with whom he corresponded. Arranged alphabetically in three large boxes, two are of nautical subjects, and the other, people. Individuals are listed by last name, and vessels by name or type. Chronologically, the collection includes correspondence from the 1910s to the 1980s (not all involving Earle), but including original printed material, the collection dates from 1894 to 1991. Topics that contained no original research by Earle were removed to the library vertical file. Note: All photographs in the collection have been removed to the library photo archive, and are listed under accession number 1176. Photocopies of originals remain in the folders listed below. Biographical Background (from MS 30)Born in Easton, Maryland on March 14, 1901, John Goldsborough Earle expressed a love for and an interest in the vessels of the Chesapeake Bay early in life. It would be this interest that ultimately shaped his professional life, with Earle able to parlay this curiosity into the receipt of a degree in naval architecture and mechanical engineering from Lehigh University upon his graduation in 1926. After working for the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, from 1943-1946 Earle served as the special assistant to the chief engineer at the U.S. Maritime Commission in Washington, D.C. Earle then moved to Moylan, Pennsylvania where he was employed by the New York-based Nordberg Manufacturing Company. During this time Earle pursued the application of the diesel engine to the maritime environment, ultimately serving on the Ships' Machinery Committee of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Earle retired in 1966 and served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, and returned to Easton in 1979. A thorough and exhaustive researcher, Earle never ceased in his quest to study and document the indigenous water craft of the Chesapeake Bay. Earle's scholarship put him in contact with many of the twentieth century's foremost maritime historians, including Howard I. Chapelle and Robert H. Burgess, and his work was particularly valuable to Marion V. Brewington in his study of Chesapeake Bay log canoes and bugeyes. Earle also contributed works to Yachting and Chesapeake Bay magazines. Prior to his death on May 21, 1992, Earle was presented with the Historic Preservation Award by the Historic District Commission of Talbot County for his lifelong dedication and devotion to the preservation of the Chesapeake Bay's maritime heritage. Subject: John G Earle | No image URL. | View | |||
| 7 | 8888.0030.0000.00 | documents | John G. Earle Collection 1891-1987 | Range, Exa 01/01/1891 - 12/31/1987 | John G. Earle Collection 1891-1987<br />This collection is predominantly comprised of ships plans, including original designs and drafts made from existing ships by John G. Earle and his brother-in-law C. Lowndes Johnson. The collection also includes works by various naval architects and designers working throughout the early and middle twentieth century. In addition, the collection includes three scrapbooks comprised of newspaper clippings and other references to the architectural history of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.Biographical Background:Born in Easton, Maryland on March 14, 1901, John Goldsborough Earle expressed a love for and an interest in the vessels of the Chesapeake Bay early in life. It would be this interest that ultimately shaped his professional life, with Earle able to parlay this curiosity into the receipt of a degree in naval architecture and mechanical engineering from Lehigh University upon his graduation in 1926. After working for the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, from 1943-1946 Earle served as the special assistant to the chief engineer at the U.S. Maritime Commission in Washington D.C. Earle then moved to Moylan, Pennsylvania were he was employed by the New York based Nordberg Manufacturing Company. During this time Earle pursued the application of the diesel engine to the maritime environment, ultimately serving on the Ships' Machinery Committee of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Earle retired in 1966 and served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, and returned to Easton in 1979. A thorough and exhaustive researcher, Earle never ceased in his quest to study and document the indigenous water craft of the Chesapeake Bay. Earle's scholarship put him in contact with many of the twentieth century's foremost maritime historians, including Howard I. Chapelle, and Robert H. Burgess, and his work was particularly valuable to Marion V. Brewington in his study of Chesapeake Bay log canoes and bugeyes. Earle also contributed works to Yachting and Chesapeake Bay magazines. Prior to his death on May 21, 1992, Earle was presented with the Historic Preservation Award by the Historic District Commission of Talbot County for his lifelong dedication and devotion to the preservation of the Chesapeake Bay's maritime heritage.Scope and Content:The collection, spanning close to one hundred years of maritime history, is definable by two large and predominant sections and is primarily composed of 245 ships plans. Specifically, the works of C. Lowndes Johnson and those done by Earle himself highlight the collection and are accented by the accumulated works of navalarchitects in contact with both Johnson and Earle throughout the twentieth century. Both Johnson and Earle engaged in taking lines off existing vessels and in the drafting of original designs, however, the majority of Johnson's works are original in nature and include the plans for the Comet Class sailboat. Whereas the works of Earle are largely composed of tracings and sketches of the Chesapeake's indigenous watercraft, both collections present a balance between the working vessels commonly associated with the Chesapeake(bugeyes, pungys. schooners, etc.) and the lesser known sailing yachts and skiffs which also made the Chesapeake's maritime landscape distinct. The accumulated works by other designers serve to broaden the range of the collection beyond the Chesapeake and include the works of naval architects such as William P. Gardner and Owen P. Merrill who worked in New York City. The collection also contains sailmaker's plans, although mostly unidentified and unlabeled, along with scrapbooks detailing the architectural history of the Eastern Shore and a small number of governmental documents concerning Chesapeake Bay vessels which serve to enhance the ships plans portion of the collection in terms of the overall maritime heritage of the region. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 8 | 0000.0700.0012.00 | glass plates | foot of CHERRY STREET looking toward foot bridge | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | Range, Exa 01/01/1910 - 12/31/1915 | FOOT OF CHERRY STREET LOOKING TOWARDS THE BRIDGE; piers of Kirby Shipyard in right background. Oil lamp on street was installed after Oct 1909. Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS | No image URL. | View | ||
| 9 | 0000.0706.0006.00 | glass plates | THOMAS KIRBY SHIP YARD RAILWAY WITH THREE SCHOONER | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | Range, Exa 01/01/1912 - 12/31/1913 | Rear of 206 Mulberry Street, St. Michaels, with other houses near corner of Mulberry and Water Street, showing Fairview, St. Michaels harbor, and Navy Point beyond, viewed from cupola of primary school in St. Mary's Square, looking northeast. Nearly same view as 693-10, but with background in better focus. For dating, see notes on pf 697.10, probably taken at the same time. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 10 | 0000.0706.0010.00 | glass plates | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH STEAMER ON THE RAILWAY | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | Range, Exa 10/01/1903 - 05/01/1904 | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH STEAMER Emma K. Reed ON THE RAILWAY AND LOG CANOES IN THE FOREGROUND, WINTER. Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View | ||
| 11 | 0000.0704.0008.00 | glass plates | Schooners & bugeye drying sails, Kirby's Marine Rw | Range, Exa 01/01/1897 - 12/31/1907 | Schooners & bugeye drying sails on Thomas H. Kirby's Marine Railway in St. Michaels. Copies and negative on CSA 12F4. |  | View | |||
| 12 | 1997.0018.0002.00 | half-hulls (model) | Builder's half model of WILLIAM HAYWARD from KIRBY | Kirby and Sons, Thomas __Creator ||Kirby and Sons, Thomas __Designer | Range,Exac 01/01/1871 - 12/31/1871 | St. Michaels - MARYLAND | WORKING HALF MODEL FROM KIRBY & SONS SHIPYARD, ST. MICHAELS, MODEL #6 OF 2 SCHOONERS, 1/2" SCALE, 5 LIFTS, PENCIL NOTATIONS ON STATIONS VISIBLE Associated Place: ST. MICHAELS, MD Negative #: N2026, R4 |  | View | |
| 13 | 1965.0014.0001.00 | half-hulls (model) | HALF MODEL FROM THOMAS KIRBY'S BOATYARD | Kirby and Sons, Thomas __Creator ||Kirby and Sons, Thomas __Designer | St. Michaels - MARYLAND | HALF MODEL FROM THOMAS KIRBY'S BOATYARD, ST. MICHAELS, OF A FRAME BUGEYE. Possibly model of bugeye Dan, built in 1891. Negative #: N1035 |  | View | ||
| 14 | 1965.0014.0002.00 | half-hulls (model) | HALF MODEL, MADE BY THOMAS KIRBY OF ST. MICHAELS | Kirby and Sons, Thomas __Creator ||Kirby and Sons, Thomas __Designer | St. Michaels - MARYLAND | HALF MODEL, MADE BY THOMAS KIRBY OF ST. MICHAELS, OF A CENTERBOARD SLOOP. Possibly the model for sloop Maria, built in 1888. Materials: WOOD Colors: NATURAL WOOD Place Made: ST. MICHAELS, MD Associated Place: ST. MICHAELS, MD |  | View | ||
| 15 | 8888.0167.0000.00 | ledger (account book) | Cape Charles Customs House Records, 1895-1914 | Circa 1895-Circa 1914 | 16 volumes of Cape Charles Custom House Records priarmily for the years 1895-1914, with some information ranting from 18786 to 1930. Deaccessioned from artifact collection, but no MS number yet assigned. <br /><br />Copies Of Mortgages - Registered or Enrolled Vessels Collector's Office - Custom House / <br />from April 29, 1899 to March 10, 1916 <br /><br />Record of Licenses for Enrolled Vessels - Custom House department of Commerce & Labor <br />April 3, 1908 to Sept. 14, 1911 <br /><br />Master's Oath for Renewal by Indorsement of License of Merchant Vessel or Yacht - Custom House Department of Commerce, Aug. 1, 1912 to July 11, 1918 <br /><br />Record of all Seizures, Fines, Penal ties & Forfeitures For Violations of The Navigation Steamboat Inspection & Immigration Laws & Dispositions Thereof, Custom House Port of Cape Charles, Va. Department of Commerce & Labor, Sept. 5, 1907 to Aug. 4, 1914 <br /><br />Copies of Bills of Sale - Enrolled Vessels Collector's Office - Custom House Jan. 12, 1901 to July 17, 1901 <br />Index of Registers - Custom House <br /><br />Sept. 7, 1886 to Sept. 19, 1907 <br />Copies of Licenses of Vessels Under 20 Tons_ Custom House Nov. 4, 1905 to June 27, 1906 <br /><br />Consolidated Certificates Of Enrollment & License, Department of Commerce & Labor,<br />Aug. 10, 1911 to June 6, 1938 <br /><br /> Record of Abstracts of Registers, Enrollments & Licenses Issued & Surrendered <br />Collector's Office - Custom House July 1, 1901 to March 31, 1908 <br /><br /> Copies Of Mortgages - Licensed Vessels Collector's Office- Custom House Oct. 4, 1886 to Dec. 16, 1909 <br /><br />Record of Abstracts Of Registers, Enrollments & Licensed Issued & Surrendered <br />Collector's Office - Custom House April 30, 1895 to June 30, 1902 <br /><br />Copies of Licenses of Enrolled Vessels Collector's Office - Custom House Aug. 19, 1898 to June 30, 1911 <br />Record of Enrollments - Custom House July 24, 1876 to Nov. 25, 1910 <br /><br />Record of Licenses of Vessels Under 20 Tons Custom House Department of Commerce & Labor June 15, 1905 to Nov. 2, 1905 <br /> <br />Copies of Licenses of Vessels Under 20 Tons Collector's Office - Custom House <br />May 16, 1904 to Oct. 12, 1904 <br /><br />Bills of Sale of Licensed Vessels Under 20 Tons May 21, 1900 to March 14, 1902<br /> | No image URL. | View | |||
| 16 | 0000.0735.0003.00 | negatives | THOMAS H. KIRBY, ST. MICHAELS BOATBUILDER Old Su | THOMAS H. KIRBY, ST. MICHAELS BOATBUILDER Old Subject Fields: SHIPBUILDING | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 17 | 0000.0704.0011.00 | negatives | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD RAILWAY WITH SCHOONER "KATE | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | Range,Exac 01/01/1897 - 12/31/1907 | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD RAILWAY WITH SCHOONER "KATE MCNAMARA" AND OTHER SAILING CRAFT IN BACKGROUND Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View | ||
| 18 | 0000.0706.0005.00 | negatives | LARGE STEAM LAUNCH ON THE THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD RA | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | LARGE STEAM LAUNCH ON THE THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD RAILWAY WITH BOYS SWIMMING IN THE FOREGROUND Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS | No image URL. | View | |||
| 19 | 0000.0708.0017.00 | negatives | LOOKING TOWARDS THE SHORE FROM THE THOMAS KIRBY SH | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | LOOKING TOWARDS THE SHORE FROM THE THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH A VARIETY OF SAILING CRAFT MOORED Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS | No image URL. | View | |||
| 20 | 0000.0708.0020.00 | negatives | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD LOOKING TOWARDS NAVY POINT W | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD LOOKING TOWARDS NAVY POINT WITH SAILING CRAFT IN THE BACKGROUND Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View | |||
| 21 | 0000.0708.0018.00 | negatives | THOMAS KIRBY yard with crew and large yawl yacht | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | Range, Exa 01/01/1903 - 05/03/1915 | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH MEN WORKING ON the LARGE YAWL yacht VESTA. John Kirby in black hat & vest; Thomas H. Kirby in hat and coat; Billy Kirby right under mast; From old Remarks field: SEE ALSO 699.16 Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS Subject: Thomas H Kirby Subject: John Kirby |  | View | ||
| 22 | 0000.0708.0019.00 | negatives | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH MEN WORKING ON A LARGE | Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer | THOMAS KIRBY SHIPYARD WITH MEN WORKING ON A LARGE YAWL; From old Remarks field: SEE ALSO 699.16 Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS; SHIPBUILDING, YARDS | No image URL. | View | |||
| 23 | 8888.0102.0000.00 | papers | Papers of John Frazer, Jr. | Background<CR>The material in this collection was acquired in a donation from Mr. John Frazer Jr. It consists of a petition, May 1803, Elizabeth Smith to Talbot County, to keep the Oxford Ferry; letter dated June 7, 1822 from S. Harrison to Wm. W. Moore re: selling a 39 foot scow; materials relating to Maryland Nautical Academy; Correspondence to O. Tilghman relating to establishment of a steamboat line, 1903; shipping receipts to O. Tilghman; and shipping receipts to Dr. S. A. Harrison.Scope and ContentThe items in this collection are contained in one manuscript box with 8 file folders, and one oversized folder. The box is in Misc. Manuscripts and the large folder (#9) is in CSA 12 FF20. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 24 | 8888.0134.0000.00 | papers (document genres) | John G. Earle Shipbuilding Cardfile | Earle, John G __Creator | This collections consists of a series of cardfiles (originally housed in a metal cabinet) created by John G. Earle, indexing a variety of subjects related to shipbuilding in Maryland and Virgnia. Individual sections within the cardfile organized information by vessel type, builders by county/region, and miscellaneous sections focusing on topics related to boats and boatbuilding history.Note: All photographs have been rehoused in mylar sleeves and left within the card file in the order in which they were found. 13 postcard boxes | No image URL. | View | |||
| 25 | 0000.1179.0443.00 | photographic prints | Thomas H. Kirby's house in St. Michaels, MD | (with notes on back) | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 26 | 0000.1403.0029 | photographic prints | P class boat Ojigwan on the marine railway at Thomas H Kirby & Sons marine railway, St. Michaels | C. Lowndes Johnson | St. Michaels, MD | P class boat Ojigwan on the marine railway at Thomas H Kirby & Sons marine railway, St. Michaels; seen from port side; good view of hull shape; man standing on plank nearby; see p. 22, "Chesapeake Sails". |  | View | ||
| 27 | 8888.0177.0000 | sail plans --documents | Haarstick-North Sails documentation | 1980s-2000s | Eight boxes containing printed and hand-drawn sail plans, from Haarstick Sailmakers and North Sails, for numerous classes of cruising and racing sailboats. Both Haarstick and North used computer driven equipment to cut the sails and many folders contain the information used to load computers with the data needed to precisely cut the sails for the many types of vessels and various sails required. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 28 | 1993.0067.0090.03 | ships plans | Kirby Model No. 3, Pungy Ida | Earle, John G __Creator ||Kirby, Thomas H __Builder | Exact 04/20/1935 - | St. Michaels - MD | Plans for Kirby Model No. 3, Pungy Ida, owned by Edward N. Kirby and built by Thomas Kirby and Sons in 1873 at St. Michaels MD. Drawn by John G. Earle frin a builder's block model. Plan C depicts the hull lines. Material is pencil on paper. |  | View | |
| 29 | 1993.0067.0091.01 | ships plans | Kirby Model No. 4 | Earle, John G __Creator ||Kirby, Thomas H __Builder | Circa 01/01/1935 - | Plans for Kirby Model No. 4 owned by Edward N. Kirby. It was built by Thomas Kirby & Sons. Tracing is by John G. Earle. One set of Plans A-B. Plan A depicts the hull lines for an unidentified boat. Plan B depicts the Kirby Model No. 4. Material for Plan A is pencil sketch on paper; Plan B is black ink on tracing cloth. |  | View | ||
| 30 | 1993.0067.0092.01 | ships plans | Kirby Model No.5, Centerboard Schooner | Earle, John G __Creator ||Kirby, Thomas H __Builder | Exact 06/16/1935 - | Plans for Kirby Model No.5, Centerboard Schooner owned by Edward N. Kirby and built by Thomas Kirby and Sons. Tracing is by John G. Earle. Plan A depicts the hull ines for a centerboard schooner. Material is pencil sketch on paper. |  | View | ||
| 31 | 1993.0067.0093.01 | ships plans | Kirby Model No. 6, Schooners Thomas H. Kirby and William Hayward | Earle, John G __Creator ||Kirby, Thomas H __Builder | Exact 07/01/1935 - | Plans for Kirby Model No. 6, Schooners Thomas H. Kirby and William Hayward built iin 1871 by Thomas H. Kirby and Sons. Tracing is by John G. Earle. Plan A depicts the hull lines. Scale is .5" = 1". Material is pencil sketch on paper. |  | View | ||
| 32 | 1993.0067.0093.00 | ships plans | Kirby Model No.6, Schooners Thomas H. Kirby and William Hayward | Earle, John G __Creator ||Kirby, Thomas H __Builder | Circa 01/01/1935 - | Plans for Kirby Model No.6, Schooners Thomas H. Kirby and William Hayward built in 1871 by Thomas H. Kirby and Sons. Traced by John G. Earle. One set of Plans B-C. Plan B depicts the Kirby Model No. 6. Plan C is a blueline print of Plan B. Material for Plan B is black ink on vellum; Plan C is blueline print. |  | View |
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