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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 | 2006.0068.0629.00 | half-hulls (model) | Half model of sloop, built for RH Burgess | Burgess, Robert H __Creator | Range, Exa 01/01/1938 - 12/31/1938 | Half model of a sloop, including carved sails, made by RH Burgess to show the design of the sloop "Trade Wind" he had built for himself for $200 in the same year. The model is mounted on a stained wood board and is carved from unvarnished wood. The keel and tiller are a lighter wood. | ![]() | View | ||
| 2 | 0000.1295.0208.00 | photographic prints | Trade Wind tied up along hulk of bugeye Lemuel Ki | Exact 08/09/1938 - 08/09/1938 | Magothy River - Western Shore - MD | Trade Wind tied up along "hulk of bugeye Lemuel Kirwan where she was driven on the beach after dragging anchor in a Northeaster." Print missing; caption taken from text in scrapbook. For source, see 1295.0001. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 3 | 0000.1295.1538.00 | photographic prints | Schooner Minnie & Emma on rails at Montford Shipya | Exact 08/08/1938 - | Smith's Shipyard - Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD | Schooner Minnie & Emma on marine railway (? blocks?) at Montford Shipyard "for overhaul." When the author kept his Trade Wind there Bay sailing craft such as this were always present....She was abandoned not long after in the Yeocomico River." For source, see 1295.0001. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 4 | 0000.1295.1656.00 | photographic prints | Schooner Thomas B. Schall sailing out of Curtis Ba | Exact 08/31/1938 - | Anne Arundel County - Curtis Bay - Western Shore - MD | Schooner Thomas B. Schall running, "sailing out of Curtis Bay. Taken from Trade Wind, after at stormy night in Thom's Cove." Seen from port quarter; only sail visible is the main which is out to port; yawl boat may be pushing. For source, see 1295.0001. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 5 | 0000.1295.3155.00 | photographic prints | "Ship graveyard" in Curtis Creek, Baltimore | Baltimore - Curtis Creek - Western Shore - MD | "Across the creek from Smith's Shipyard was the 'ship graveyard.' This was the last resting place for several large WW-I built wooden steamer hulls, barges, tugs, yachts, and schooners of two to four masts. All were in solid condition when Trade Wind cruised there but have since crumbled to fragments." (Information on caption taped to back of print.) Picture shows parts of three hulks, unidentified; man standing on shore in foreground. No date. For source, see 1290.0001. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 6 | 0000.1295.3336.00 | photographic prints | Sloop Trade Wind anchored in Bodkin Creek | Range, Cir 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940 | Anne Arundel - Bodkin Creek - Western Shore - MD | Sloop Trade Wind anchored in Bodkin Creek; Adele Burgess standing on shoreline at left; she may be starting a cooking fire. For source, see 1295.0001 | No image URL. | View | ||
| 7 | 0000.1295.3341.00 | photographic prints | "Author's boat thrown up on the beach by force of | Canton - Baltimore - Patapsco River - Western Shore - MD | "Author's boat thrown up on the beach by force of wind and waves, against the background of the Canton grain elevator...A familiar scene around the Chesapeake area after the storm had passed on." (Caption taped to back of print.) Hull is leaning to starboard and much oof the bottom is visible; Shearline does not look like Trade Wind, Burgess's boat, but he may have had more than one boat. no date. For source, see 1295.0001 | No image URL. | View | |||
| 8 | 0000.1290.4305.00 | photographic prints | Sloop yacht Trade Wind anchored | Exact 08/08/1938 - | Sloop yacht Trade Wind anchored; mainsail furled; seen from port side; date penciled on back; owned by Robert H. Burgess 1918-1941. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 9 | 8888.0105.0000.00 | reports | Scrapbook of sailboat racing records, Gibson Is. | Exact 01/01/1935 - 12/31/1939 | Scrapbook of sailboat racing records from Gibson Island, etc. 1935-1939<CR><CR>Background<CR>This material was purchased from Eric Steinlein.Scope and ContentCollection consists of a 1 scrapbook and 1 folder.Scrapbook contains adhered newspaper clippings and copies of race results. Binder is bound with string. 56 pages.Loose papers:Front cover-p. 1: Cedar Point Race Gibson Island Yacht Squadron September 2 & 3, 1939 and Results Poplar Island Racep. 4-5: Annual Cedar Point Race Gibson Island yacht Squadronp. 53-54: Newspaper clipping from the Baltimore Sun, May 24, 1937 with article, "George A Whitting's White Cloud Finishes First"p. 55-56: Gibson Island Yacht Squadron Handicaps Poplar Island Race July 30, 1939 | No image URL. | View |
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