DOCSLIB.ORG

Implementation Grants – Mystic Seaport Museum – Voyaging

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Implementation Grants – Mystic Seaport Museum – Voyaging GI-50615-13 NEH Application Cover Sheet America's Historical and Cultural Organizations PROJECT DIRECTOR Ms. Susan Funk E-mail:[email protected] Executive Vice President Phone(W): (860) 572-5333 75 Greenmanville Avenue Phone(H): P.O. Box 6000 Fax: (860) 572-5327 Mystic, CT 06355-0990 UNITED STATES Field of Expertise: History - American INSTITUTION Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. Mystic, CT UNITED STATES APPLICATION INFORMATION Title: Voyaging In the Wake of the Whalers: The 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan Grant Period: From 9/2013 to 2/2016 Field of Project: History - American Description of Project: Mystic Seaport requests a Chairman’s Level implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a suite of online, onsite, offsite, and onboard public programs and exhibits that will provide new national insight into universal and important humanities themes, through an interdisciplinary exploration of historic and contemporary American whaling. The Museum and its partners will explore through this project how, when, and why dominant American perceptions of whales and whaling took their dramatic turns. The project will raise public awareness in New England and nationwide about the role the whaling industry played in the development of our nation’s multi-ethnic make-up, our domestic economy, our global impact and encounters, and our long-standing fascination with whales. And it will promote thought about the nation’s whaling heritage, and how it continues to shape our communities and culture. BUDGET Outright Request $986,553.00 Cost Sharing $1,404,796.00 Matching Request Total Budget $2,391,349.00 Total NEH $986,553.00 GRANT ADMINISTRATOR Ms. Caroleen Frey E-mail:[email protected] Controller Phone(W): (860) 572-0711 ext. 5068 75 Greenmanville Avenue Fax: (860) 572-5316 P.O. Box 6000 Mystic, CT 06355-0990 UNITED STATES Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. Voyaging In the Wake of the Whalers: The 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan National Endowment for the Humanities Public Program Implementation Proposal Table of Contents Narrative Nature of Request………………………………….……………………………………………………….1 Humanities Content………………………………………………………………………………………...2 Project Formats……………………………………………………………………………………………..8 Project Resources……………………………………………………………………………………….....11 Project History…………………………………………………………………………………………….12 Chairman’s Special Award………………………………...……………………………………………...14 Audience, Marketing, and Promotion……………………………………..……………………………....15 Project Evaluation………………………………………………………………………………………....17 Organizational Profile…………………………………..…………………………………………………18 Project Team…………………………….………………………………………………………………...19 Work Plan…………………………...………………………………………………………………….…19 Fundraising Plans……………………………...…………………………………………………………..19 Attachments 3) Exhibit Walkthrough 4) Stillman Exhibit Conceptual Design 5) Object List 6) Sample Interpretive Texts for “Voyaging In the Wake of the Whalers” 7) Work Samples for Digital Components 8) Selected Bibliography 9) Resumes and Letters of Commitment 10) Project Budget and Budget Justification 11) Additional Information 12) Supplemental Information GRANT11298703 -- Attachments-ATT1-1234-TableofContents.pdf NATURE OF THE REQUEST Mystic Seaport requests a $986,553 Chairman’s Level implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a suite of online, onsite, offsite, and onboard public programs and exhibits that will provide new national insight into universal and important humanities themes, through an interdisciplinary exploration of historic and contemporary American whaling. This project will neither overly celebrate nor outright condemn the hunting of whales by indigenous peoples, 19th and 20th-century Americans, or other cultures either past or present. Instead, it will explore how, when, and why dominant American perceptions of whales and whaling took their dramatic turns. It will raise public awareness in New England and nationwide about the role the whaling industry played in the development of our nation’s multi-ethnic make-up, our domestic economy, our global impact and encounters, and our long-standing fascination with whales. And it will further promote thought about the nation’s whaling heritage, and how it continues to shape our communities and culture. As a nation of strong independent individuals, Americans tend to agree on little from baseball teams to religion, from economic philosophies to politics. However, a recent telephone poll of 800 American adults suggests that there is one thing that 76% of us do agree on – opposition to commercial whaling.1 The dominant American perception of whales today, as promoted by documentary videos, reality TV shows such as “Whale Wars,” aquaria, and ocean conservation efforts, casts these “charismatic mega- fauna” as gentle ocean giants, distinct from humans in their size and underwater habitat, yet vulnerable to human actions and almost anthropomorphic in their family and social life, songs, and wanderlust. Today the thought of hunting, killing, and butchering a whale is repugnant and wrong to most Americans. A look back in time reveals how far public perception has shifted. Many 19th-century Americans relied heavily on products harvested from whales: baleen-cored buggy whips, corsets and skirt hoops, ambergris-fixed perfumes, Soapine whale oil laundry soap, and clean-burning oil lamps. Lighthouse keepers along the Great Lakes and coasts used whale oil to keep their beacons lit for mariners, factories lubricated their heavy hard-working machinery with whale oil, and cities lit their streets with it. Also, capital earned from whaling financed many of the later aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Whale oil greased our economy, strengthened our diplomatic and foreign exchange position, and influenced our culture from the middlebrow (Currier & Ives whaling scene prints) to the experimental (Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick). Mystic Seaport and its program partners will explore the changing perceptions of whales and other humanities themes with a broad range of public audiences through an unprecedented sailing voyage, groundbreaking exhibits at the Museum and host sites around the country, and far-reaching online programs and resources. Programming will be implemented over three-years beginning in fall 2013: • offsite–national reach will be extended through concurrent satellite exhibits in 10 other museums nationwide to open before the voyage and run through its completion; • onboard–with the historic 38th Voyage of the 170+-year-old wooden whaleship Charles W. Morgan to selected ports-of-call along the New England coast and through the whale feeding grounds of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; • dockside–with live exhibits and learning experiences at each port call; • online–via live streaming from the ship and ports during the 38th Voyage, a series of digital maps charting whaling ships, whalemen, and whales as they circulated around the globe, and an Online Learning Community (OLC) website with extensive digital elements, activities, and analysis in conjunction with the State of Connecticut’s 2013-2014 “Year of the Morgan”; and 1A telephone poll of 800 registered voters. Survey results available as “Research on Attitudes toward Commercial Whaling,” conducted by the Benenson Strategy Group for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, April 2012. Mystic Seaport, Inc. “Voyaging in the Wake of the Whalers” Proposal Page 1 GRANT11298703 -- Attachments-ATT2-1235-narrative.pdf • onsite–through a new 4,000 sq.-ft. exhibit in the Stillman building at Mystic Seaport (hereafter referred to as the Stillman exhibit), to open after the 38th Voyage to continue presenting the project themes through artifacts, graphics, interactives, and multimedia elements into the future. An NEH implementation grant would support vital work as follows: 1) Presentation of dynamic and thought-provoking public programming during the ship’s port visits in summer 2014; 2) Online educational and public components (before, during, and after the voyage and targeted toward a national audience); 3) Exhibit final development and implementation work (final design, fabrication, and installation of a major, long-term gallery exhibit to follow the voyage, and creation of a dozen or more concurrent satellite exhibits based on the vessel, voyage, and America’s whaling heritage to run before, during, and after the 38th Voyage); 4) Scholarly input, research, and documentation (continued scholarly consultation on the two new whaling-related exhibits, and documentation and research compiled during the voyage to archive and share with the public online and through exhibits); 5) Staff research and training to prepare for the major re-interpretation of the Museum’s central artifact for its visitors during and after the voyage; and 6) Audience evaluation work to gather audience input for program improvements during the project period and to assess the project’s effectiveness in conveying humanities content and stimulating public thought and discussion around the central themes and topics. At the project’s center will be the 11-week, summer 2014 voyage of the Charles W. Morgan. Following a major restoration to be completed in July 2013, this large unique artifact, a National Historic Landmark, will operate under her own sail power for the first time in 80 years. The restoration offers a historically significant opportunity to sail the Morgan to New England ports that have specific strategic humanities- based connections: New London, CT, once
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Contested Meanings and Narratives Surrounding Animal Advocacy
    Wars of Images and Representations 211 WARS OF IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS: CONTESTED MEANINGS AND NARRATIVES SURROUNDING ANIMAL ADVOCACY Brian M. Lowe Introduction: Advocacy and Conflict The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), created in 1977 by Paul Watson (a co-founder of the environmental group Greenpeace), has pur- sued a strategy of direct action—non-violent engagements including phys- ical interference and obstruction—in a variety of campaigns on behalf of oceanic nonhuman animals, especially marine mammals such as whales and seals. The recent campaigns of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the waters surrounding Antarctica (what Hiroshi Hatanaka, the director general of Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research termed “the Southern Ocean”)1 (have gained public attention in the United States primarily through information (on websites and press releases) circulated through the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and through the Animal Planet television series Whale Wars (which completed broadcasting its fifth season in August 2012). This television series features the SSCS deploying ocean-going vessels, (named after publicly recognized animal advocates including Farley Mowat, Steve Irwin, and Cleveland Armory, in order to challenge commercial whaling. As noted by Heller in his 2007 account of being aboard the Farley Mowat, Watson succinctly summarizes the Sea Shepherd strategy as “sink ships, but don’t break laws.” The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society legitimizes its actions through appeals to international law and the scientific community in order to convince broad audiences that their actions are defending both marine life and the legal statutes against callous disregard and indifference towards law. Watson justifies the Sea Shepherd’s actions: that commercial whal- ing—especially in international oceanic sanctuaries—is illegal, and there- fore actions undertaken to disrupt such hunts are legally sanctioned.
    [Show full text]
  • Moby-Dick: a Picture Voyage
    Moby-Dick A Picture Voyage Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Moby-Dick : a picture voyage : an abridged and illustrated edition of the original classic / by Herman Melville ; edited by Tamia A. Burt, Joseph D. Thomas, Marsha L. McCabe ; with illustrations from the New Bedford Whaling Museum. p. cm. ISBN 0-932027-68-7 (pbk.) -- ISBN 0-932027-73-3 (Cloth) 1. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick--Illustrations. 2. Sea stories, American--Illustrations. 3. Whaling ships--Pictoirial works. 4. Whaling--Pictorial works. 5. Whales--Pictorial works. I. Burt, Tamia A. II. Thomas, Joseph D. III. McCabe, Marsha. IV. Title. PS2384.M6 A36 2002 813'.3--dc21 2002009311 © 2002 by Spinner Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Spinner Publications, Inc., New Bedford, MA 02740 Moby-Dick A Picture Voyage An Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic by Herman Melville Edited by Tamia A. Burt, Joseph D. Thomas, Marsha L. McCabe with illustrations from The New Bedford Whaling Museum Acknowledgments / Credits Naturally, no serious book concerning the American whaling industry can be done with- out interaction with the New Bedford Whaling Museum. We are grateful to Director Anne Brengle and Director of Programs Lee Heald for their support. We are especially grateful to the Museum’s library staff, particularly Assistant Librarian Laura Pereira and Librarian Michael Dyer, for their energy and helpfulness, and to Collections Manager Mary Jean Blasdale, Curator Michael Jehle, volunteer Irwin Marks, Emeritus Director Richard Kugler, and Photo Archivist Michael Lapides. When we began work on this project, The Kendall Whaling Museum was an indepen- dent entity in Sharon, Massachusetts, and we were fortunate enough to receive the gracious assistance and eminent knowledge of the Kendall’s Director, Stuart M.
    [Show full text]
  • National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form
    JEoua^lo 10-300 REV. (9/77) ! UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES i INVENTORY-NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS \UHOWTO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS __________TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS ____ INAME HISTORIC Mystic Bridge National RegiaLeg- District AND/OR COMMON LOCATION STREET & NUMBER East side of Mystic River. See Item 4. _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN1 ^* CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT VICINITY OF 2nd - Christopher J. Dodd STATE V CODE A XDUNTY , CODE Connecticut ^J CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE X.DISTRICT —PUBLIC ^OCCUPIED _AoajauLiu RS , ,,., S^USEUM X — BUILDING(S) —PRIVATE —UNOCCUPIED , ^COMMERCIAL' ^—PAftK: —STRUCTURE X.BOTH —WORK IN PROGRESS —EDUCATIONAL XpfljvATE RESIDENCE _ SITE v^ PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE —OBJMgi ^ N _ IN PROCESS —YES: RESTRICTED > _ GQVElifMENF ' —SCIENTIFIC —BEING CONSIDERED —YES: UNRESTRICTED ^.INDUSTRIAL " —TRANSPORTATION —NO ' ^MILITARY V • --'' —OTHER: lOOWNEl OF PROPERTY i See atibntinuation sheets l" STWilTA NUMBER STATE ^ '"'..y' — VICINITY OF VOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS.ETC. Hall STREET & NUMBER Elm St. CITY. TOWN STATE Stoning ton Connecticut REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS State Register of Historic Places DATE 1978 FEDERAL X-STATE COUNTY LOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Connecticut Historical Commission CITY. TOWN STATE . Hartford Connecticut Fori^N" 10-^.Oa (Hev 10 74) UNIThD STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Mystic Bridge District Mystic, CT CONTINUATION SHEET Prop. Owners . ITEM NUMBER 4 PAGE 1 All addresses are Mystic, CT 06355 unless otherwise noted. Property address and mailing address of owner(s) are the same unless ad­ ditional (mailing) address is given.
    [Show full text]
  • Guidance on Your Financial Journey
    nonprofit org. u.s. postage paid the Museum Store new bedford, ma permit no. 29 18 Johnny Cake Hill New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740-6398 www.whalingmuseumstore.org Bullfrom johnny cake hill | etinsummer 2013 HOURS May – September: Daily 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Until 8:00 p.m. every second Thursday of the month LIBRARY HOURS October – April: Tuesday – Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Wednesday – Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Until 8:00 p.m. every second Thursday of the month First Saturday of each month Open Holiday Mondays | Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The New Bedford Whaling Museum is governed by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society. Subscription to this publication is a benefit of membership. For more information about membership, All rights reserved. This publication may not call 508 997-0046 ext. 150 or visit www.whalingmuseum.org. be reproduced in whole or part without the expressed written consent of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Museum is fully accessible WHALIN RD G O M F D U E S E B U W M E N O N 3 0 E 0 H 2 U ~ N 03 DR 19 GUIDANCEED Y EONARS YOUR FINANCIAL JOURNEY Private client services for you, your family, and your business. Assurance Tax Advisory Investment Advisory Services offered through CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, LLC, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. 508-441-3300 | cliftonlarsonallen.com ©2013 CliftonLarsonAllen LLP elcome WIncoming Trustees a year in review James G.
    [Show full text]
  • 2009-January-February-Enews
    Sustainable eNews IWMC World Conservation Trust www.iwmc.org Promoting Sustainable Use January-February-09 Welcome to the 175th Party to CITES On 21 January 2009, Bosnia and Herzegovina deposited its instrument of accession to CITES, and will so become the 175th Party to CITES on 21 April 2009 IWC “Compromise” Package is found to be Deficient In Terms of the Principles of the ICRW Editorial by Dr Janice Henke espite the best intentions and laudable efforts of Why should they accept such a deal when Japanese scien- DDr. Bill Hogarth and the advice of his cooperating UN tific research teams have been collecting and analyzing negotiation experts, the latest proposed IWC compromise is relevant biological and migration data since 1987, in full looking increasingly problematic. While the intentions to compliance with Article VIII of the Convention? The solve the impasse are admirable, the strategy was flawed Scientific Committee of the IWC has praised this work, and because of the implicit suggestion that scientific research has noted that it does contribute to the science-based, con- whaling is harmful, or irrelevant to whale ecology. servation knowledge of minke whales. Mr. Shigeru Ishiba, Minister of Japan's Agriculture, This work and other research efforts in the Southern Ocean Forestry and Fisheries government department, has been and in the north Pacific around Japan have indicated the quoted as saying “We cannot accept a proposal that discon- seriousness of Japan's determination to learn as much tinues our research hunting”. The proposal had offered as possible about cetacean abundance, trends in nutrition, Japan the opportunity to harvest enough animals for the fertility, natural mortality, and pollution load.
    [Show full text]
  • Etir Code Lists
    eTIR Code Lists Code lists CL01 Equipment size and type description code (UN/EDIFACT 8155) Code specifying the size and type of equipment. 1 Dime coated tank A tank coated with dime. 2 Epoxy coated tank A tank coated with epoxy. 6 Pressurized tank A tank capable of holding pressurized goods. 7 Refrigerated tank A tank capable of keeping goods refrigerated. 9 Stainless steel tank A tank made of stainless steel. 10 Nonworking reefer container 40 ft A 40 foot refrigerated container that is not actively controlling temperature of the product. 12 Europallet 80 x 120 cm. 13 Scandinavian pallet 100 x 120 cm. 14 Trailer Non self-propelled vehicle designed for the carriage of cargo so that it can be towed by a motor vehicle. 15 Nonworking reefer container 20 ft A 20 foot refrigerated container that is not actively controlling temperature of the product. 16 Exchangeable pallet Standard pallet exchangeable following international convention. 17 Semi-trailer Non self propelled vehicle without front wheels designed for the carriage of cargo and provided with a kingpin. 18 Tank container 20 feet A tank container with a length of 20 feet. 19 Tank container 30 feet A tank container with a length of 30 feet. 20 Tank container 40 feet A tank container with a length of 40 feet. 21 Container IC 20 feet A container owned by InterContainer, a European railway subsidiary, with a length of 20 feet. 22 Container IC 30 feet A container owned by InterContainer, a European railway subsidiary, with a length of 30 feet. 23 Container IC 40 feet A container owned by InterContainer, a European railway subsidiary, with a length of 40 feet.
    [Show full text]
  • AMC Fv 3.Fdr
    F/V MEAN TIDE “Ghost Trees” (Pilot) by Jason Cahill AMC 3d draft Original Productions February 29, 2012 TEASER Up on: BLUE SKY. Occasionally crisscrossed by birds. A steep-angled shot, as if looking skyward from a high perch. REVERSE ON: a white RIM of something. Could be a rooftop. MATT (V.O.) It’s a disease. Five FINGERS enter frame. Barely holding onto the rim. MATT (V.O.) (CONT'D) You can be born with it. You can acquire it. Some people try to fight it. Reveal a second hand: bloody. Chipped fingernails. MATT (V.O.) (CONT'D) Whatever you have to give? It takes. Trembling fingertips hoist the man’s weight with huge effort. MATT (V.O.) (CONT'D) Families too. Wives and kids. The crest of a head appears. Blood-streaked brown hair ... MATT (V.O.) (CONT'D) You see it in their eyes. “Why me”. Why us. What God sees fit for us to live this way. ... piercing blue eyes ... a stubbled, stubborn chin. MATT (V.O.) (CONT'D) There’s no good answer. Shimmering hot-golden REFLECTIONS blind him. REVERSE TO: the MAN’S P.O.V. - wobbly, tear-blurred, he’s hurt - and the glittering SOMETHING only a few feet away. Painfully bright. MATT (V.O.) (CONT'D) Alls I know is ... TIGHT ON: MATT AEGIS. 29. Eyes tightening on all that glitters. On the one thing that could save him. MATT (V.O.) (CONT'D) ... I’ve wanted this all my life. CUT TO BLACK. END TEASER (CONTINUED) 2 CONTINUED: ACT ONE Up on: BLACK, and a subtitle: “THREE DAYS EARLIER.” EXT.
    [Show full text]
  • Reality on the High Seas
    skull glides through the gray evening air, its hollow black eyes surveying the Faroe Islands, land that seems to have risen from the sea just to be photographed and admired. On a map, the 18-island archipelago looks like Italy flooded by melting ice caps; from the sea, it looks like the creation of Holly- wood digital-effects artists, volcanic rock exposed where streams cut through the green of swaying grass that blankets the islands. Some of its 700 miles of coastline juts up dramatically, towering above the ocean—no trees, only sheep that fearlessly walk in places it should be impossible to walk. In coves where the land slopes toward the sea, two-story houses nestle in the grass. On this Friday night, the windows in one cove twinkle, literally, as residents take pictures of the blue and gray ship that is approaching their har- bor, their dock, their home. Cameras are filming from aboard the Steve Irwin, the flagship vessel of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which ILLUSTRATION BY GREGORY MANCHESS 51 “THAT’S THE JOB: HOURS OF SHEER BOREDOM FOLLOWED BY MINUTES OF INCREDIBLE EXCITEMENT.” announces its presence with a massive two-story version of the skull-and-crossbones flag that has marked pirate ships for 300 years. Its Jolly Roger is modified with obvious sym- bolism: The outlines of two dolphins swim in a circle on the skull’s forehead, a shepherd’s staff and a trident replacing the bones underneath. This modern pirate ship is potentially dangerous, even deadly, to the volunteers who crew it and to anyone who boards, such as a visiting journalist from p l a y b o y and the people who produce Whale Wars, the Animal Planet series that follows Sea Shepherd.
    [Show full text]
  • The Makahs, the International Whaling Commission, and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling, 67 Hastings L.J
    Hastings Law Journal Volume 67 | Issue 1 Article 7 12-2015 Whaling in Circles: The akM ahs, the International Whaling Commission, and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Monder Khoury Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Monder Khoury, Whaling in Circles: The Makahs, the International Whaling Commission, and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling, 67 Hastings L.J. 293 (2015). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol67/iss1/7 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Law Journal by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. L - Khoury_12 (Hamilton_12.7) (Do Not Delete) 12/15/2015 6:06 PM Whaling in Circles: The Makahs, the International Whaling Commission, and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Monder Khoury In Anderson v. Evans, the Ninth Circuit held that the International Whaling Commission (“IWC”) Schedule’s approval of a quota to hunt whales for the Native American Makah Tribe (“Makahs”) violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The implications of this holding were troubling: despite the U.S. government and the IWC approving, on domestic and international levels, the Makahs’ whaling proposal in the 1990s, the Makahs were still unable to hunt whales legally. The Makahs’ right to whale stemmed from the 1855 Neah Bay Treaty, an agreement between the Makahs and the U.S. government in which the government promised the Makahs the right to whale. However, the enactment of a domestic law called the Whaling Convention Act in 1949 superseded the treaty, rendering it void.
    [Show full text]
  • Guide to the William A. Baker Collection
    Guide to The William A. Baker Collection His Designs and Research Files 1925-1991 The Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of MIT Museum Kurt Hasselbalch and Kara Schneiderman © 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology T H E W I L L I A M A . B A K E R C O L L E C T I O N Papers, 1925-1991 First Donation Size: 36 document boxes Processed: October 1991 583 plans By: Kara Schneiderman 9 three-ring binders 3 photograph books 4 small boxes 3 oversized boxes 6 slide trays 1 3x5 card filing box Second Donation Size: 2 Paige boxes (99 folders) Processed: August 1992 20 scrapbooks By: Kara Schneiderman 1 box of memorabilia 1 portfolio 12 oversize photographs 2 slide trays Access The collection is unrestricted. Acquisition The materials from the first donation were given to the Hart Nautical Collections by Mrs. Ruth S. Baker. The materials from the second donation were given to the Hart Nautical Collections by the estate of Mrs. Ruth S. Baker. Copyright Requests for permission to publish material or use plans from this collection should be discussed with the Curator of the Hart Nautical Collections. Processing Processing of this collection was made possible through a grant from Mrs. Ruth S. Baker. 2 Guide to The William A. Baker Collection T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S Biographical Sketch ..............................................................................................................4 Scope and Content Note .......................................................................................................5 Series Listing
    [Show full text]
  • Award Winners (Information and Photos Published in Powerships Issue #275 and #276 and Steamboat Bill Issue #245)
    Created and Compiled by: Jillian Fulda The Dibner Intern 2010 Award Winners (Information and photos published in PowerShips issue #275 and #276 and Steamboat Bill issue #245) C. Bradford Mitchell Award-2010 This award was given to Christopher Winters in recognition of his publication Centennial: Steaming Through the American Century. This full color book documents and chronicles the history of the freighter St. Mary’s Challenger. In April 2006, St. Mary’s Challenger became the first Great Lakes ship to reach 100 years of age and still in operational service. Mr. Winters, a marine photographer, spent five seasons capturing this vessel for the SSHSA photo. book. Thanks to him, the future of maritime history will always have a record of this historic vessel. H. Graham Wood Award-2010 This award was given to Francis J. Duffy in recognition of his contributions and work with SSHSA, with strong emphasis on recording and preserving the legacy of ships, New York shipping and the United States Merchant Marine. Mr. Duffy, who grew up in New York, is a professional writer and photographer specializing in the maritime industry. He was a special correspondent for the publication The National Fisherman and from 1984 to 1993 he served as director of public relations for Moran Towing & Transportation Company, where he was also editor of Moran’s Tow Line magazine. Mr. Duffy is also a principal in Granard Associates, a firm serving the maritime industry. With William H. Miller, Mr. Duffy co- authored The New York Harbor Book. Various articles and photographs by him have appeared in The New York Times, Journal of Commerce, Photo published in Steamboat Bill issue Long Island Newsday, Cruise Travel, U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Small Fishing Craf
    MECHANIZATION SMALL FISHING CRAF Outboards Inboard Enginc'In Open Craft Inboard Engines in Decked Cra t Servicing and Maintenance Coca ogo Subjects treated in the various sections are: Installation and operation of outboard motors; Inboard engines in open craft; Inboard engines in decked craft; Service and maintenance. Much of the editorial matter is based upon the valuable and authoritative papers presented at a symposium held in Korea and )rganized by the FAO and the Indo- ' acific Council. These papers St.1.07,0,0 MV4,104,4",,,A1M, ; have been edited by Commander John Burgess, and are accom- oanied by much other material of value from various authors. Foreword by Dr. D. B. Finn, C.14.G. Director, Fisheries Division, FAO t has become a tradition for the three sections of FAO's Fisheries Technology BranchBoats, Gear and Processingalternately, in each biennium, to organize a large technical meeting with the participation of both Government institutes and private industry. It all started in 1953 with the Fishing Boat Congress having sessions in Paris and Miami, the proceedings of which were published in " Fishing Boats of the World." A Processing Meeting followed in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1956, and a ,ear Congress was organized in Hamburg, Germany, in 1957. A second Fishing Boat Congress was held in Rome in 1959, the proceedings of which were again published in " Fishing Boats of the World :2." Those two fishing boat congresses were, in a way, rather comprehensive, trying to cover the whole field of fishing boat design and also attracting participants from dzfferent backgrounds. This was not a disadvantage, because people having dzfferent experiences were mutually influencing each other and were induced to see further away than their own limited world.
    [Show full text]