W. W. Coleman

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Type: Bugeye

Year: 1880

Builder: W. W. Coleman

Location: Rock Hall

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Fetch?	Row ID	Catalog #	Object Name	Title	Artist/Maker	Date Made	Place Made	Description	Full Image	CBMM Cat. Page
	1	1965.0122.0001.00	crab tongs	Crab Tongs				Wooden crab tongs with a metal pin for the hinge. Negative #: N2013 R4		View
	2	8888.0028.0000.00	documents	M. V. Brewington Collection: 1930s-1950s		Range, Cir 01/01/1930 - 12/31/1950		Part of this collection is in CSC FF 60.M. V. Brewington Collection:1930s-1950sThe collection is comprised of correspondence, research notes, ship plans, Yachting articles, newspaper clippings, draft manuscripts, and photographs concerned with Brewington's Chesapeake Bay related publications.Biographical BackgroundMarion Vernon Brewington was born at Salisbury, Maryland, on 23 June 1902 and died on 8 December 1974. As a youth, he worked as a hand on Chesapeake Bay vessels. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925, he worked as a banker in Philadelphia. With the onset of World War II, in 1942 he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve and served in the Navy Department's Naval Records and Library. After the war he held the position of Acting Curator of the Naval Historical Foundation in Washington and Curator of the maritime collections at the Maryland Historical Society. In 1956 he assumed the posts of Assistant Director and Curator of Maritime History at the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. In 1966 he accepted the Directorship of the Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts. He retired in the summer of 1974 to work on a cataloguing project at the Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut. A prolific writer, he produced some of the most important works on Chesapeake Bay maritime boatbuilding and history. The American Neptune, XXXV:1 (January 1975)Scope and ContentThe collection represents Brewington's research methods. The range and type of material reflects the author's meticulous search for details regarding all aspects of the Chesapeake Bay's vernacular watercraft and shipping. The majority of information was collected during the period 1930-1950, though some documents exceed this date. Many of the documents, newspaper abstracts, and notes examine general information regarding eighteenth- and nineteenth-century shipbuilding and maritime commerce. Most of the correspondence deals specifically with information regarding late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chesapeake Bay vessels. The ship plans preserve specific designs of Chesapeake Bay related watercraft. Subject: Marion V Brewington	No image URL.	View
	3	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
	4	1981.0008.0011.00	grooving planes	STAMPED: G.W. FIELD, 1/2", NO 171, 22?, UNION FACT	Union Factory, __Creator			STAMPED: G.W. FIELD, 1/2", NO 171, 22?, UNION FACTORY WARRANTED, H. CHAPIN. MAKES A SET O TONGUE AND GROOVE PLANES WIRH A981-008-010 Materials: BEECHWOOD, STEEL Colors: BROWN, BLACK Negative #: N2003 R02	No image URL.	View
	5	2003.0013.0001.01	log canoes (model)	BELLE M. CRANE	Lambdin, Robert D __Creator	Circa 1930		Log canoe model of the BELLE M. CRANE, but misspelled on bow "BELL M. CRAIN." Model has white topsides, red bottom, yellow cove stripe and bow sprit braces. Cotton sails, brown with age, two masts, jib boom, gull wing rig fore and main, one hiking board, and an oar, both in boat, cotton string for all lines, rudder, tiller. Interior painted an orange yellow; removeable chocks at both mast partners, centerboard pull, hatch cover over lazarette on skipper's seat. The model was built by Robert D. Lambdin (1849-1938) to represent the then-surviving log canoe, BELLE M. CRANE (built in 1879). Possibly made for owner of the canoe, Ruth Starr Rose, the only log canoe owner and skipper of her day. Model has cradle. Condition: Fair. Sails in disrepair, brown and holes: very fragile. Topside paint chipping. Cotton lines fragile. Sails located in CSA 7A2		View
	6	1981.0008.0009.00	molding planes	OVALO TYPE; STAMPED: 8 5 5, USNM, G.A. FIELD (TWIC	Seidenstricker, __Creator			OVALO TYPE; STAMPED: 8 5 5, USNM, G.A. FIELD (TWICE), A.B. SEIDENSTRICKER & CO., 90 W. BALTO. ST. BALTO. Materials: BECHWOOD, METAL Colors: BROWN, BLACK Place Made: BALTIMORE, MD Negative #: N2003 R02	No image URL.	View
	7	8888.0136.0000.00	records (documents)	Gray and Waller Packing Co Records, 1900-1940s		1900-1940		Scope and Content: The collection consists primarily of ledgers related to the companies operation and supples. Payments to oystermen, crabbers, and shuckers are noted by individual name. Some ledgers have widely mixed dates, which appear to be the result of "available space" ( if a particular year ledger was filled or not readily available, another year's ledger, with unused pages, was used). Contracts and agreements are also included on some ledger pages. <br />Additional loose materials include calculations and work sheets, (later transferred to the ledger and usually un-dated), letters from venders, shipping forms, personal letters, advertisements, government letters pertaining to requests for development of oyster grounds, and Corp of Engineers regulations. <br />Biographical/Historical Note: The materials in this collection were purchased at Dixon's Auction, Crumpton, Md. circa 2012. The book " Elliott's Island: the land that time forgot" ( A.M.Foley and Freddie T. Waller, 1999, Dogwood Ridge Books, Elliott, Md) notes that Gray and Waller was one of several shucking houses on the island. The book notes that the business was operated by James Prettyman Gray and his brother-in-law Thomas "Monk" Waller at the Low-er Creek from around 1917 to 1925. Foley and Waller indicate that the company was known primarily as an oyster house although records show wholesale crabmeat shipments to Baltimore. Records contained in these ledgers also show fur trapping, fish and seasonal fruit and vegetable packaging and shipments , although these appear to represent a minor endeavor compared to oysters and crabs. The Elliott's Island book provides a very limited description of this company. In 1925 Prettyman Gray attempted to sell the company to brothers Joseph, Ira, and Carl, but the sale was not completed. The book notes, "Eight years later the shucking house, long since idle, was washed out by the August Storm of 1933. Ira and Joe Gray picked up the pieces from the mouth of McCready Creek, trucked them home to Gate Point, and built I. Gray and Bro., a shucking house which em-ployed a number of local shuckers, including Phyllis Gray, Bertie Gray, Gertie Gray, and Elsie Woodland ( the ledgers include activity and payment to these and other workers). The brothers owned private oysterbeds (sic) off from Gates Point and Joe Gray owned the buyboat Lucky Lindy with which to supply the business" ( El-liott's Island, pp. 114-115).<br />The ledger entries end in the 1940's although the Elliott Bros. crabhouse continued under new ownership. Ches-ter and Jean Martinek ran the operation until it burned in 1962. Although Foley and Waller note the business was idle sometime during the period from 1925 to 1933, the ledgers indicate a variety of continuing operations.<br />4 boxes	No image URL.	View
	8	2024.0017.0001	runabouts	Sue Too, Whirlwind 1958	Whirlwind __Designer ||Moll, Deborah A. __Manufacturer	1958	Cockeysville - MD	Sue Too, 1958 whirlwind boat, 14'. A wooden runabout and Mercury 650 motor. <br />This boat was bought directlyfrom the company in 1958 and stayed in one family through its whole life. <br /><br />a 14-foot plywood boat, Sue Too, made by Mold Products Inc. of Cockeysville, Maryland. This company, known for producing plywood airplane fuselages during World War II, transitioned to boat manufacturing post-war. The boat, representative of a niche market from the late 1940s to early 1960s, is in excellent condition due to being stored indoors for most of its life. <br />	No image URL.	View
	9	1981.0008.0010.00	tonguing planes	STAMPED: G.W. FIELD, 1/2", NO 171, UNION FACTORY W	Union Factory, __Creator			STAMPED: G.W. FIELD, 1/2", NO 171, UNION FACTORY WARRRANTED, H. CHAPIN WITH BLADE AND WEDGE. Materials: BEECHWOOD, STEEL Colors: BROWN, BLACK Negative #: N2003 R02	No image URL.	View