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Image features numerous workboats ashore at an oyster processing plant; in the background is a large pile of oyster shells. Pictured are: Lola E. Bennett (1902), Nettie B. Greenwell (1897), Willie H. White (1883), M.A. Sommers (1890), and Sunny South (1881).
NOTES: In season the city markets of the Chesapeake section would attract large numbers of craft laden with watermelons. This scene shows Pier 4, Pratt St., Baltimore, one of the discharge points for melons. Vessels shown are bugeyes GORMAN C. and NETTIE B. GREENWELL, skipjacks E. C. COLLIER and MARY M. CLARK, schooner J.A. CHELTON and pungy-schooner JOHN MARTIN. This trade is now handled by power boats and trucks. LABEL COPY: UNLOADING WATERMELONS, BALTIMORE 1952 Oil on Canvas QO 957
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Starboard side view of 2-masted log canoe MARY RIDER with two men onboard. Two other sailing vessels and shoreline in the background. Dominant colors are off-white, blue and yellow. VESSEL HISTORY: Chesapeake Bay log canoe MARY RIDER, built by James Lowery in 1877, at Tilghman's Island, Maryland. She served as a workboat, raced, and carried out sailing parties. By 1917, she had been cast aside but was later reconditioned and made a name for herself in racing. She won a number of trophies in the annual workboat races, Governor's Cup races and regattas. Several years ago, due to her age, the MARY RIDER was finally abandoned. NOTES: An account of the MARY RIDER, dealing more specifically wiht her later years as a racing canoe entitled "Memoirs of MARY RIDER" by William H. Green may be found in the May 1948 issue of the magazine "The Chesapeake Skipper." Text from Daily Press, Newport News, Sunday, October 31, 1948: The "Mary Rider," about 28 feet in length was built at Tilghman's Island in 1877 by James Lowry. She served as a workboat, raced, and carried out sailing parties. Before acquiring her present name she was known as the "Louise," named after Louise Kemp of Wades Point, Maryland. By 1917, she had been abandoned and was left on the beach to die. Fortunately, however, she was to get a new lease on life. Her present owner, Mr. William H. Green, of Cordova, Maryland, found her and finally managed to take over. She was renamed "Mary Rider" after Mr. Green's daughter, and after a complete reconditioning she was out with the fleet again, participating in races. After her first trophy, a new suit of sails, in the 1921 workboat races, she entered the other races and made good. In 1928, 1929, and 1930, she won the Governor's Cup, a perpetual trophy sponsored by the late governor Ritchie of Maryland. At one time the "Mary Rider" was matched against the 72 foot bugeye "Nettie B. Greenwell" in the President's Cup Regatta off Anapolis. In this race, run on the Chesapeake Bay rough waters and plenty of wind, the log canoe came in first even though she was half full of water due to a near swamping. Although she was given tender care, the "Mary Rider" due to her age, finally went to pieces. A tribute was paid to her in "Memoirs of 'Mary Rider'," written by Mr. Green and which appeared in a recent issue of the yachting magazine, "The Chesapeake Skipper." But her name will once more be seen in future regatta programs about the bay. Under construction at this time is a new canoe to be known as "Mary Rider's Daughter."
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