Two Brothers

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Type: Bugeye

Year: 1885

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Fetch?	Row ID	Catalog #	Object Name	Title	Artist/Maker	Date Made	Place Made	Description	Full Image	CBMM Cat. Page
	1	1997.0065.0001.00	coats	Overcoat of ferry boat captain Daniel Higgins, Sr.		Circa 01/01/1940 -		Overcoat of ferry boat captain Daniel Higgins, Sr., who worked for the Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry Co., full length black coat with gold buttons, double breasted, 3 bands of trim at cuffs, label inside reads"A. Jacobs & Son, Baltimore", small chain for hanging sewn in at collar. Condition: Good, needs cleaning, no moth damage. Material: Wool, satin, metal. From original owner's son.		View
	2	8888.0074.0000.00	documents	The Tilghman Packing Company/Avalon Island Collect		Exact 01/01/1897 -		The Tilghman Packing Company/Avalon Island Collection:Background:The Tilghman Packing Company was opened in 1897 by two brothers, S. Taylor Harrison and J. Camper Harrison. The construction and operation of the company helped to create Avalon Island, a small parcel of land made entirely from oyster shells. In 1905, the Tilghman Packing Company was officially located on Avalon Island and by 1934 George T. Harrison, the cousin of the abovementioned founders became president of the company for nearly thirty years. The company packed all of Vita Foods fish products for decades and these business proceedings resulted in a strong business relationship between George Harrison and Vita president, Mr. Heller. In 1944, like many other production companies, the Tilghman Packing Company was supporting the war effort through high production of food stuffs. The company was given the "A Award" by the War Food Administration for their continued excellence throughout the war. By 1962, the Tilghman Packing Company was sold by the Harrison family to Richard "Dick" Knapp. In 1968, the packing company was dissolved by Duffy-Mott Inc, becoming the Tilghman Packing Division. The company was officially liquidated by 1975; and by 1976 Duffy-Mott Inc. finally sold Avalon Island which would eventually become Tilghman-On-Chesapeake, a waterfront community and marina.In 2000, Margaret Enloe Vivian wrote her Masters of Arts thesis about the Tilghman Packing Company and the transition of Avalon Island from one of production to one of leisure and recreation. The above information is taken from her thesis, which is catalogued in this collection in its entirety as well as in a condensed article entitled: "Tilghman Packing Company and the Transformation of Landscape on Avalon Island," that was published in the spring 2000 edition of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's former publication The Weather Gauge.Subjects: African Americans on the Chesapeake Bay Avalon Island Duffy-Mott Inc. H. Robins Hollyday Photograph CollectionThe Tilghman Packing Company The Tilghman Packing Division Tilghman Island Cross Burning (1986-1987) Tilghman Island-general information, history Tilghman Island Day (1977)Tilghman-On-Chesapeake community and marina Vita FoodsIndividuals represented in the collection: May BouldenBob CooperElizabeth "Lib" DunleavyMarie Ennells George T. HarrisonJ. Camper Harrison S. Taylor HarrisonGeorge Heller Harrison (son of the Tilghman Packing Company's President George T. Heller)Mr. Heller Phil and Sue Metzler Lillian Mortimer Dan and Edwina Murphy Bill Runyon Jack Stapleton Pete Sweitzer Margaret Enloe VivianNewspapers and Periodicals represented in the collection: Mott off the Press The Banner Newspapers Shore LinesThe Star Democrat The Sunday Sun [Baltimore] The Washington Post The Weather Gauge TOC Happenings Subject: J C Harrison Subject: S T Harrison Subject: Geo T Harrison	No image URL.	View
	3	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
	4	8888.0087.0000.00	documents	H. M. Rowe & Co., Oyster Packers:BackgroundI		Range, Cir 03/01/1882 - 07/31/1887		H. M. Rowe & Co., Oyster Packers:BackgroundIn 2001 the museum purchased four large, leatherbound books consisting of volumes labeled "Ledger", "Journal", "Cash", and "H. M. Rowe & Co." The latter contained no readable entries. The Journal contained entries from 1 March 1882 through 31 August 1885; Cash had entries from 1 September 1885 through 16 July 1887; and the Ledger covered the period from 1884 through July 1887.Wood's Baltimore City Directory, 1874 (Baltimore: John W. Woods), at p. 492, lists "Rowe, H. M. & Co (H. M. & W. H. Rowe) oyster packers, 68 Boston". Also, H. M. Rowe is listed at "393 e Pratt", and Wm. H. Rowe is listed at "395 e Pratt". Finally, James B. Rowe, bookkeeper, is listed at "393 e Pratt". From this it is evident that the Rowe company was in the oyster packing business as early as 1874. Information contained in the three volumes suggests that the company ended its business in July 1887. Polk's Baltimore City Directory, 1902, has no listing for the company.In 1882 Joseph W. Brooks (1832-1915) built a schooner named H. M Rowe at his yard in Dorchester County, MD. (See Pete Lesher, "The Industrious Shipbuilder: Joseph W. Brooks" (The Weather Gauge, v. 36, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 3-11 and 33). A photo at p. 7 shows the Rowe with her homeport as Deals Island. The vessel's first owner was Caleb J. Moore whose connection with the Rowes is not known. As shown below, however, the Rowe company purchased oysters from the vessel over several years.Scope and ContentThe Journal and Cash volumes reflect receipts and disbursements over a five-year period. Many of the disbursements were small amounts to the three Rowes; many others were to named recipients or for such expenses as stamps, labels, etc.The Journal (pp. 1-239) is of interest because it shows on a day-by-day basis all receipts and disbursements from 1 March 1882 through 31 August 1885. Disbursements cover everything from postage stamps, newspaper purchases (New York Herald, Baltimore American), payments to the Rowes and their employees, to payments for oysters delivered by ships. Among many vessels to which payments were made were the sloop Morning Light, and schooners Sea Belle, Sharps Island, Nautilus, Exchange, H. P. Barnes, Maid of Erin, Ann Virginia, Two Brothers, and Lewis Taulane. Of special are payments to the schooner H. M Rowe. These began on 6 October 1882 with the entry (p. 45) showing a payment of $50.00, and the entry "name & colors". Subsequent entries show payments to the vessel throughout the years 1882 until 19 January 1885. Most payments were for relatively large amounts apparently for cargos of oysters: examples are payments of $315.00 on 8 December 1882 (p. 61), $511.56 on 27 December 1882, and $455.05 on 11 January 1883.However, the key portion of the collection is contained in the Ledger. Between pages 70 and 261 the entries show shipments of oysters to numerous buyers in a variety of states and Ontario, Canada. Each entry shows the date of shipment, the quantity shipped (barrels, half-barrels, kegs, tubs), the grade of the shipment(standards, selects), the price of the shipment, and the payment dates and amounts, almost always in cash. The Ledger also shows that each of the Rowes owned one-third of the value of the assets of the company (pp. 4-5), but that H.M. Rowe held the most capital (pp. 30-43). Although the Rowes were all partners in the firm, we do not know what their relationship was to each other.A second important part of the Ledger reflects payments for merchandise to numerous individuals and companies (pp. 301-329).In short, although this company was only one of many oyster packers and shippers in Baltimore during the period covered by these volumes, clearly its business was widespread and apparently lucrative: when the company apparently wound up its business on 16 July 1887, the total capital split among the Rowes was about $21,665, a fair amount for the time.	No image URL.	View
	5	0000.0709.0009.00	glass plates	HARBOR VIEW TOWARDS PARROTS POINT WITH A VARIETY O	Sewell, Thomas H __Photographer	Range, Cir 01/01/1895 - 12/31/1905		HARBOR VIEW TOWARDS PARROTS POINT WITH A VARIETY OF SAILING CRAFT, INCLUDING the Lambdin-built pungy Two Brothers (left, stern towards the camera), a pungy, A SCOW SLOOP, schooner, and bugeye Old Subject Fields: ST. MICHAELS		View
	6	0000.0975.0324.12	negatives	Crab dredger Two Brothers and two others at work	de Gast, Robert			Crab dredger Twp Brothers and two other dredgers at work. Shot for story by William Warner, Smithsonian Magazine, Feb. 1975; see also Warner's book, Beautiful Swimmers. See 975.324.02 for source, date, place, etc. Note: Merchant Vessels of the U.S. lists two Two Brothers home-ported in Norfolk; impossible to tell which one this is.		View
	7	0000.0975.0324.19	negatives	Crab dredger Two Brothers with dredge over the sid	de Gast, Robert			Crab dredger Two Brothers with dredge over the side and crew holding an empty barrel. Shot for story by William Warner, Smithsonian Magazine, Feb. 1975; see also Warner's book, Beautiful Swimmers. See 975.324.02 for source, date, place, etc. Merchant Vessels of the U. S. lists two Two Brothers, and it is impossible to tel which one this is.		View
	8	0000.0975.0138.29	negatives	Patent tonger Two Brothers, bow on, fleet of paten	de Gast, Robert __Photographer			Patent tonger Two Brothers, bow on, fleet of patent tongers in profile in background; they are oystering off Chesapeake Beach on a "warm winter day" according to photographer. See also frame 30, which also has a skipjack in background.. See 975.0138.03 for date, place.		View
	9	2000.0039.0001.00	prints	Barber print "Harvesters-Oyster Tongers off Grey's	Barber, John M __Artist	Exact 01/01/1996 -		print of John Morton Barber painting "Harvesters-Oyster tongers off Grey's Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia." Signed and numbered (292-950) by the artist, certificate of authenticity included. Condition: excellent.		View
	10	2006.0068.0396.00	railings	Section of namepiece from ship "Enos Soule"		Range, Cir 01/01/1869 - 12/31/1869		Piece of the hull of the ship "Enos Soule" with the letters "S SOU" carved into one side. This is a single piece of wood with four bolts parallel to the face of the letters. The outer end of the bolts are covered by plugs of wood, indicating that two of the four sides were exposed on the hull. There are traces of white around the letters and the bolts, perhaps from paint. <CR>Burgess found this timber in a drainage ditch near the James River in Newport News, and surmises that, although the "Enos Soule" was never based in the Chesapeake Bay, the timber may have been cut away from the ship when she visited to pick up coal as a coal barge.<CR>Vessel named for Maine sea captain Enos Soule (29 Nov 1792 - 8 Nov 1869) who served in the War of 1812 and was taken prisoner, spending two years in Dartmoor Prison. Later he retired from seafaring and engaged in shipbuilding at Freeport, Maine, with two of his brothers.		View
	11	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