Lula

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Type: Bugeye

Year: 1878

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Location: Crisfield

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These records are found in the online catalog of The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, Virginia. Uncurated search results are presented to give researchers and interested readers an idea of whether the museum’s archives contain information about this vessel and whether it may be worthwhile to visit the museum’s catalog search page for further investigation. Uncurated results may be inaccurate or incomplete.

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Fetch?Row IDMediaDateVesselPlaceRelated PlacesInscription/MarksSubjectNotesArchive Number
1No image URL.Lula + SadieP0001.011/01-1947
2No image URL.Bugeye Lula & SadieP0001.011/01-#PK2761
3SHORT DESCRIPTION: Pen and ink drawing of port view of two-masted sailing vessel off coastline. NOTES: Volume of pen and ink drawings by A.L. Van Name, Jr., M.D. depicting Chesapeake Bay vessels.CL6051
4No image URL.Caption: "Lula, Miss."MS0003/-004.2734
5No image URL.Lula M. PhillipsP0001.011/01-1948
6MS0094-5044 Lula F3/1905Lulu F (Stern wheel steamer : 1890).Lula F.; 5044Steamboats–Louisiana–New Orleans.; Paddle steamers–Louisiana–New Orleans.Shows a wrecked stern wheel steamer moored at a pier with a tugboat off the stern. Another vessel is moored at the opposite side of the same pier. Stanton's notes place him in New Orleans, Louisiana. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Mar 1905"MS0094/01-#5044
7P0003-01--F-139455/1/1945United States. Army–Food service.Mrs. Grace Lanndreth of Newport News, Manager of the Milk Bar, supervising Mrs. Lula Tuck (left) of Red Hill and Mrs. Irene Martin, of Newport News (middle). They make well over 1000 sandwiches a day, mostly for debarking veterans.Kitchens–Virginia–Newport News.Shows three women at work in a kitchen making sandwiches. Behind them are shelves stocked with food supplies. They appear to be wrapping individual sandwiches in butcher paper.P0003/01-#F-13945
81972/10/05James River (Va.).Photographer stamp: Herb Barnes, Times Herald, Oct.5, 1972.Oystering–Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.).; African Americans.Oyster tongers on the James River, move bucket of oysters with cable.P0001.001/01-#P2655
9MS0094-1347 Lula May Hardy6/17/1895Lila May Hardy (Steamboat : 1884).Harlem River (N.Y.).Lula May Hardy - (tug); 1347Steamboats–New York (State)–New York.; Tugboats–New York (State)–New York.Shows a starboard side view of a tugboat making way. Research shows this scene to be set along the Harlem River in Upper Manhattan. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Jun 17 [1895]"MS0094/01-#1347
10No image URL.Giles County (Va.)–Social life and customsGiles county childhoodLB103764
11SHORT DESCRIPTION: Pen and ink drawing of port view of two-masted schooner anchored near dock and boathouse with trees in background. NOTES: Volume of pen and ink drawings by A.L. Van Name, Jr., M.D. depicting Chesapeake Bay vessels. LABEL COPY: LULA M. PHILLIPS (schooner) Built 1913, at Bethel, Del. 61 Tons (gross) 52 Tons (net) 77.5 x 22.0 x 5.6 Vessel is pictured here at the dockside of a small dry dock at West Point, Ma., about 1925 or later. She was undergoing repairs to bowsprit. This picture is from a photo taken by me and drawn to scale. A few years later, this vessel was cut down for power. She is still earning a good living and at present (1947) isCL6095
12No image URL.Shells–Identification–Gulf States; Shells–Identification–Atlantic Coast (U.S.)"Sea shells of the Gulf and Atlantic Coast" Cover. Includes index.LB116
13MS0350.01.05.031929James Adams Floating Theatre.Showboats–History–20th century.; Steamboat disasters.Copy print of a 1929 broadside for the James Adams Floating Theatre's 16th annual tour. The print only shows the recto of the broadside; the verso is MS0530.01.05.04. The page is divided into two blocks, each with a dotted black border. The block on the right has the title, James Adams Theatre 16th Annual Tour, along with a photo of the boat and one of James Adams, owner and manager. At the bottom of the right side is a large text block titled "To Our Public," which discusses the sinking of the ship on November 24, 1927 off Thimble Shoals in the Chesapeake Bay, and how the ship was refloated and renovated "from the waterline to the roof" as it states just below the title. The block on the left side of the recto lists "some of our concert features," to include performances by Harry Shannon, The Hermans, Eddie and Hazel Paul, Bobby Giles, Lula Shannon, and the James Adams Music Masters. In addition, there is a photo of the James Adams Music Masters, above the bold title, "Here Comes the Show Boat."MS0350/-01.05#03

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