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SHORT DESCRIPTION: Three quarter length female figure in ca1880 costume with feathered hat. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: See object file for Carol Olsen summary dated May 20, 1983. INVENTORY: bolts and bracket - there is one (1) component part.
Shows a port side view of the bow of a small screw schooner moored at a pier. The masts of ships moored at the opposite side of the same pier can also be seen. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Jun 8 '96"
Steamboats–United States.; Harbors–United States.; Shipyards–United States.
Shows a view of the stern of a steamboat moored at a pier. On the opposite side of the pier a vessel can partially be seen on stocks. There is not enough inform to disambiguate the vessel Sentinel from similarly named vessels. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "May 21 1897"
Shows a starboard side view of the stern of a small screw schooner making way. Another vessel can be seen in the background. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Aug 11, 1894", "Phila to Balt on Centipede towed by Pottsville"
NOTES: The LIZZIE J. COX was a frame bugeye built at John Branford at Fishing Island, Maryland, in 1905. This type of craft originated on the Chesapeake Bay sometime after the Civil War and was used in general freighting and for dredging oysters on these waters. They decreased in popularity when the shipjack was introduced near the end of the 19th century. The COX was sold to New England owners in 1937. On August 21, 1938, she foundered in Bristol Harbor, Rhode Island. Vessel dimensions: 67.6 x 18.5 x 5. The Museum commissioned the artist to painting this painting and QO 753. NOTES: See M.V. Brewington, "Chesapeake Bay Bugeyes (1941), numerous references and plans (see Index). [Excerpt from article in Daily Press] The "Lizzie J. Cox" was a frame bugeye 67.6 feet in length, built in 1905 at Fishing Island, Maryland. She had been used in the oyster trade, and in the off season freighted wheat and watermelons to the Baltimore market. After more than thirty years service on the Chesapeake she was sold and taken north. On September 21, 1938, she was caught in the path of a hurricane which swept through New England and foundered in Bristol Harbor, Rhode Island.
NOTES: This sketch may be from Sketchbook 80B which is not in our collection. This sketch is double sided. VESSEL INFORMATION: VESSEL NAME: LIZZIE E. DENNISON VESSEL TYPE: SCHOONER, 3 DATE BUILT: 1890 SHIPBUILDER: RUSSELL BUILDER LOCATION: DEERING, ME. HOMEPORT: PORTLAND, MAINE VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 145.5' x 33.0' x 14.9; 528 gross tons SHIP OWNER: J.S. WINSLOW & CO. FLAG: AMERICAN
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Starboard trailboard; top edge straight. Bottom edge curved and tapered. Curved border, chain like pattern forms five enclosed panels surrounding carved boat name in the largest, flowers and leaves in the remaining four. Leaves at the meetings of the panels. Name is dee-vee incised, rest of design in low relief. Lettering, border, leaves and flowers, yellow. Balance green. INVENTORY: Two (2) parts of board and pieces - there are three (3) component parts. LABEL COPY: TRAILBOARD, 1905 Bugeye LIZZIE J. COX (1905-1938) Gift of Mr. W.V. Barlow 40.21 ON 19 LABEL COPY: Trail Board of the LIZZIE J. COX The LIZZIE J. COX (1905-1938) was a Chesapeake Bay bugeye. 1905, American Donated by Mr. W.V. Barlow ON 19 VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: LIZZIE J. COX SHIPBUILDER: J. BRANFORD BUILDER LOCATION: FISHING ISLAND, MARYLAND
Bugeyes (Boats)–United States.; Schooners–United States.; Sailboats–Equipment and supplies.
Shows a view of the deck of a schooner docked at a wharf. The shot is made from the bow looking aft. Two men are standing at the stern. There is no caption for this negative.
Envelope: "Bugeye Lizzie J. Cox. Photos W.V. Barlow. 1937. 18 negs (9 here)" Librarian's note: there are only 8 negatives in this envelope.
Bugeyes (Boats)–United States.; Schooners–United States.; Sailboats–Equipment and supplies.
This is a trick shot of the bow of a schooner made from climbing out to the end of the bowsprit and looking aft. There is no caption for this negative.
Envelope: "Bugeye Lizzie J. Cox. Photos W.V. Barlow. 1937. 18 negs (9 here)" Librarian's note: there are only 8 negatives in this envelope.
Bugeyes (Boats)–United States.; Schooners–United States.; Boats and boating–Maintenance and repair.
Shows a view of the hull of a schooner out of the water. Two men are standing under it while a woman can be seen on the deck smiling for the camera. There is no caption for this negative.
Bugeyes (Boats)–United States.; Schooners–United States.; Sailboats–Equipment and supplies.
Shows two men standing near the stern of a schooner. One man is in a suit, the other is dressed more like a sailor with his hand on the ship's wheel. There is no caption for this negative.
Brooklyn - (ferry) see - Lizzie Wyman - (tug); 2206
Steamboats–New York (State).; Paddle steamers–New York (State).; Ferries–New York (State).; Tugboats–New York (State).
In the foreground shows a tugboat pushing a barge, while in the background a ferry is making way. Far in the background is the Brooklyn Bridge. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "July 27, 1896"
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Full length female figure in late nineteenth century dress holding a flower to her bosom. NOTES: This figurehead has a rather unique feature in that the figure wears a hat with a large sunflower on it. It is very similar to "Lizzie" (OF 45) and to a figurehead at Mystic called "Woman with binoculars" (see a picture in Silent Pilots on page 64).
VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: ALICE S. WENTWORTH VESSEL BUILT: 1863 VESSEL TYPE: TWO MASTED SCHOONER BUILDER LOCATION: SOUTH NORWALK, CONNECTICUT VESSEL HISTORY: Owned in 1925 first record owner, by Z.N. Tilton, Vineyard Haven, Mass. Owner in 1927, Edward C. Lord, Vineyard Haven; in 1938, Ralph M. Packer, Vineyard Haven; in 1939; Schooner ALICE S. WENTWORTH Associates, New Bedford, Mass. in 1944, J. Parker Hall, New Bedford; in 1946, Hosea B. Phillips, Bar Harbor, Maine. Alternate vessel names: (1) LIZZIE A. TOLLES (SCHOONER 1863-1904); (2) ALICE S. WENTWORTH (SCHOONER: 1905-1974).
NOTES: Sketchbook No. 46 of pencil drawings created by Antonio Jacobsen from 1878 to 1918 for his artworks. VESSELS LISTED IN SKETCHBOOK NO. 46, DATED 1896 FORTEVOIT (Bark,4) (Vessel Built 1891) TROMP (Ship) (Vessel Built 1891) BLENGFELL (Bark) (Service Dates 1876-1898) GULF OF TARANTO (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1892) COYA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1895) GRENADA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1896) LIZZIE ROSS (Bark) (Vessel Built 1873) CORTIA (Screw Steamship) CAPUA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1889)
RELATED PLACE: NEW JERSEY, WEST HOBOKEN, 31 PALISADE AVENUE
NOTES: Sketchbook No. 63 of pencil drawings created by Antonio Jacobsen from 1878 to 1918 for his artworks. VESSELS LISTED IN SKETCHBOOK NO. 63, DATED 1900-02-06 JERSEY CITY (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1882-1924) VIGELAND (Bark) (Vessel Built 1889-) TAURUS (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1881-) COMANCHE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1895-1925) FINANCE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1883-1908) CHATTAHOOCHEE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1882-1927) LIZZIE M. PARSONS (Schooner,4) (Vessel Built 1902-) ADVANCE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1883-1923) CATANIA (Screw Steamship) SAXON PRINCE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1899-) MINNEAPOLIS (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1900-1916) LARCHMONT (Paddle Wheel Steamship) (Vessel Built 1885-1907) TREMONT (Paddle Wheel Steamship) (Vessel Built 1883-1904) ALLIANCA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1886-1924) KANSAS CITY (Screw Steamship) [OCEANIC?] (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1899-1914) CAROLINA AKA CITY OF SAVANAH (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1876-) HERO (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1903-) HONORIUS (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1899-) WELLS CITY (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1885-1902) WINIFRED KANSAS CITY (Screw Steamship) BUFORD (Screw Steamship) (U.S. Army Transport)
Photocopy of a two-page letter and one-page enclosure from Mrs. Thomas P. Reaves, President of the Lizzie Rutherford Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to Miss Martha C. Pinkerton of Norfolk, Va. Reaves regrets her lack of any information on John Dunlop's family and descendants. She describes in detail Dunlop's monument in Linwood Cemetery in Columbus, Georgia. Attached to the letter is an article by LeRoy Yarborough about headstones in the Linwood Cemetery in Columbus, Georgia, in which John Dunlop is buried.
A one-page letter from Elsie M. Westenhaver to Irwin M. Berent regarding her ancestor, James Marshall Duncan, and his Civil War service. Enclosed are six pages of photocopies, including Westenhaver's letter to the National Archives, a typescript copy of Duncan's obituary, copies of muster rolls on which he appears, and a typed time line of his life.
This collection consists of a six-page letter written by Helen R. Ostby to her friend Hope Chapin. The letter thanks Mrs. Chapin and her husband for accommodating Helen and her friend Anna Warren on board the Carpathia after they were rescued from the Titanic disaster. She mentions her physical problems, and updates Mrs. Chapin on some of their mutual acquaintances. She also notes that her father's body had been recovered, though the body of her friend Anna's husband had not.
Newport News (Va.).; Hampton Roads (Va. : Region).; Fort Monroe (Va.).; United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Personal narratives.; United States–History–Naval operations, Confederate. Civil War, 1861-1865
Peninsular Campaign, 1862–Personal narratives.
The collection consists of four manuscript letters from Edwin F. Orr, 11th New York Infantry, to family members such as his parents, sisters, and brothers. The letters span the dates January to May, 1862, and are written from Newport News, VA. In addition, the collection contains a newspaper clipping from the New York Herald from Dec. 30, 1861, chronicling the attack on the Union steamer Express by the Confederate gunboat Sea Bird. - Two of the four letters and the clipping refer to the brief exchange on Dec. 29, 1861 between Express, her tow the schooner Sherwood, and Sea Bird. In the exchange, Sea Bird attacked Express and her charge en route to Fort Monroe with a supply of fresh water. Express, being fired upon by a 32-pounder gun, evidently cut her tow to avoid being sunk or taken, causing the schooner to be taken as a Confederate prize. Express and the crew of the Sherwood escaped, and Union efforts to rescue Sherwood proved unsuccessful. - The other two letters contain information about the massing of troops in Newport News as part of the Peninsular Campaign, and the preparation for the occupation of Norfolk on May 10, 1862.
United States–History–Blockades. Civil War, 1861-1865
Merchant marine–Great Britain–Records and correspondence.; Merchant mariners–Great Britain.
This collection of items-original and copied-from the second half of the nineteenth century focuses on both the civilian and military careers of James M. Duncan. Featuring a variety of certificates, letters, tickets, and records, this collection reflects Mr. Duncan's work aboard numerous steamships in Europe as well as his service in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Of interest is the fact that, although serving in the Confederate States of America military, Mr. Duncan was a Scottish citizen who did not formally immigrate to the United States until 1873.
United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Personal narratives.
This is a collection of six letters written by private Stephen Brooks who was a cook in Company B of the 6th New Hampshire Infantry Volunteers. Five letters are addressed to his wife and one letter to a Mr. Nelson. These letters mostly contain information about his daily life and where he was stationed, as well as advice to his wife and the granting of guardianship of his wife to Mr. Nelson. Also included are three newspaper clippings of poems, two of which are about the sinking of the Cumberland during the Battle of Hampton Roads in March 1862.
United States–History–Blockades. Civil War, 1861-1865; United States–History–Naval operations, Confederate. Civil War, 1861-1865; United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Personal narratives.
This small collection focuses on the Civil War service of Andrew Jackson Forrest, primarily aboard the Confederate blockade runner Imogene. His certificate of discharge from the Imogene in Liverpool in 1865 is of particular interest. In 1912, Forrest traveled to Wilmington, North Carolina with his wife to visit with some old shipmates from his blockade running days. This visit occasioned two letters in the collection that he wrote to his son, William, in which he discusses his Civil War service and the reunions with old shipmates. A third, undated, letter from his brother-in-law, William B. Needham, to William Forrest includes a newspaper clipping from the Wilmington Star that describes Andrew Forrest's 1912 visit to the area. Also present in the collection is a copy print of an original work of art that purports to show the Imogene.
NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Publisher; FALL RIVER - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Related Place
NOTES: Information about print by Gloria Deak, Picturing America, item 638: The Indians called Fall River "Quequechan," meaning "falling water." The town is situated at the mouth of the Taunton River, about fifty miles south of Boston, on an abrupt elevation of land. The first settlement had its origins in the expansion of Plymouth Colony around 1656, when the General Court of Plymouth granted a tract of land to a number of freemen of the jurisdiction. The grant was subsequently confirmed by a warranty deed signed by the local sachems, who, in turn, were given "twenty coats, two rugs, two iron pots, two kettles and one little kettle, eight pairs of shoes, six pairs of stockings, one dozen hoes, one dozen hatchets, two yards of broadcloth and a debt satisfied to John Barnes, which was due from Wamsitta to John Barnes." One of the earliest seventeenth-century settlers was John Borden, whose family name figures prominently throughout Fall River history. The town's growth was slow until the nineteenth century, when Fall River's natural advantages-water power, a mild, moist climate, and a good harbor-trans-formed it into a booming textile center. The water power came from the Quequechan River, which, with its nine sets of falls, ran down to the Taunton River. Cotton mills proliferated, and by 1876 Fall River could boast that it had 1,269,048 spindles - over one-eighth of all the spindles in the United States - and 30,144 looms operating in forty mills. In 1917 the count would be 4,000,000 whirling spindles. Benjamin Franklin Smith's large, tinted lithograph shows us a highly industrialized town, which we view from across the Taunton. In the foreground is Somerset. Scanning right from the open farm spaces at the left, we come into a heavy concentration of buildings, where elegant churches and large residences mingle with solidly built factories. Six of the churches make themselves easily identifiable by poking their towers or spires above the skyline. From left to right they are: the First Baptist Church; the Old Stone Church (First Congregational); the Central Congregational Church; the First Methodist Church; the Unitarian Society; and the Baptist Temple. The First Baptist Church (with the solid square tower) and the Baptist Temple (on the hill just to the left of the two factory smokestacks) are still standing. Between the third and fourth churches, the large horizontal building with a tower is the Pocasset Mill. The busy shipping of the Taunton River includes rigged vessels and steam packets, and the names of two of the latter can be made out: the Bradford Durfee and the Empire State. The Bradford Durfee had a square engine and was put into service in 1845. She was named after Major Bradford Durfee, one of Fall River's most active businessmen. "He was one of the original eight owners of the Fall River Iron Works Co., formed in 1821, and was conspicuously active in the improvement of what is known as 'below the hill.' In building operations, in the construction of wharves, in the getting out of stone, in de-vising means to accomplish certain ends, in readiness of comprehension and clearness in imparting ideas, in all the various ways in which one man gains and retains an influence over others, perhaps Major Durfee has never had a superior in the city" (Henry H. Earl, A Centennial History of Fall River, p. 27). Another important figure is Colonel Richard Borden, who was also connected with the Fall River Iron Works and who, with his brother Jefferson, ran the American Print works. (The buildings of these establishments can be seen in the lithograph sending up smoke from the shore of the Taunton.) Because they wanted to ship their goods to New York, they built a line of steamers; the Empire State was their second packet. To get their goods to Boston, they built a railroad that joined with the line out of New Bedford into Braintree and then went on to Boston. By 1852, Fall River mills began to use steam: the schooners we see on the river are probably bringing coal as well as lumber to the mills. The little sailboats may be bringing produce to the markets from the farms on the Somerset side. In 1892, Fall River was the scene of a celebrated murder involving the Borden family. Lizzie Borden was charged, and then acquitted, of the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Impressions of the Smith lithograph, printed by the firm of Sarony and Major in New York, are owned by the Fall River Historical Society, the Boston Athenaeum, the American Antiquarian Society, the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and the New York Historical Society. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: EMPIRE STATE VESSEL TYPE: steamboat SERVICE DATES: 1848-1877 SHIP BUILDER: Samuel Sneeden BUILDER LOCATION: New York SHIP OWNERS: Bay State Steamboat Company VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 317' (length) x 40' (breadth x 13'6"(depth of hold), 1,691 tonnage; vertical beam engine having cylinder 76", and stroke 144". VESSEL HISTORY: The Bay State Steamboat Co. incorporated in 1847 was in 1863 changed to "Boston, Newport & New York Steamboat Co.", the forerunner of the Fall River Line. The EMPIRE STATE was the second steam of the Fall River Line. Before launching , the EMPIRE STATE was tentatively named the PLYMOUTH ROCK, but the name was changed before launching. The keel of the EMPIRE STATE was laid on June 29, 1847 and the hull was launched March 18, 1848. A few months later she was completed andput into serivce on the Fall River Line. Soon afterwards, however, on January 13, 1849, she was burned at the dock in Fall River, at a loss of nearly $200,000. The hull was raised and repaired, towed to New York, and there the superstructure was rebuilt. On July 26, 1856, when she was near Point Judith, eastbound, her starboard steam chimney gave way, resulting in injury of serveral passengers through escaping the steam. In 1857 she sank, when near Hell Gate, and in the next year she struck a rock, about 30 miles from New York, and as a result sank again. In both cases the damage was not extensive and she was soon repaired. This vessel was chiefly used as a spare boat after the NEWPORT & OLD COLONY were built for the Line in 1865. In 1871 she was sold, and was rebuilt as an excursion steamer. She was at Bristol, Rhode Island, being reconditioned for summer service when she was accidentally destroyed by fire on May 14, 1877.
OF45
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MS63-103 Lizzie J Cox
MS0094-2119 Lizzie Henderson
MS0094-2783 Lizzie Colburn
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P0001.011-02-APK14-025
MS63-100 Lizzie J Cox
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MS63-102 Lizzie J Cox
MS0094-711 Lizzie Henderson
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MS63-603-1 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-603-2 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-605-1 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-343 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-603-5 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-604-1 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-604-8 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-605-2 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-342 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-604-2 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-604-6 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-605-3 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-339 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-341 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-603-8 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-603-9 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-348 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-338 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-346 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-603-3 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-603-6 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-603-7 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-604-3 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-604-7 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-604-4 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-603-4 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS63-604-5 Bugeye Lizzie J Cox
MS0094-2206 Lizzie Wyman
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1993.0042.000041_Coya
MS0164-001-01-002-15.03_01
LP192