Eastern Shore Growth • Kent Island Memories Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Fall 2007
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- This Just In– The Mail Box Breaking News with Postcards
- Annapolis, July 24, 1905. Laurence G. Claggett Collection, CBMM
- In 1914, Baltimore (above) celebrated the centennial of the writing of the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
- FDR’s yacht Potomac (above) at the Cambridge Creek drawbridge in the early 1950s. New Buicks (below) being unloaded at the Easton train station in 1912.
- Floating Fleet is Shipshape
- The Delaware ducker takes shape in the Boat Shop. Cliff Mumford and Tony Blake prep Old Point for a new
- Mystery solved—it’s Crisfield
- Fred Hecklinger, Annapolis, Md.
- Philip R. Beigel, Severna Park, Md.
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S pinner racks full of glossy “wish you were here” postcards greet tourists at gift and card shops around the world. Glorious tropical sunsets, white sandy beaches, snow- capped mountains, and log canoes racing under full sail are captured on the fronts of the familiar notecards. Postcards, for the most part, are scenic photographs purchased and mailed as mementos of places visited and sites seen. But in an age before rapid, mass communications, postcards were also used to spread photographs of events. With no nightly news to broadcast im- ages of breaking news, or even news- papers that could rapidly disseminate 31
The Mail Box Breaking News with Postcards Colorized postcard (above) showing the aftermath of the 1904 Baltimore fire. John Paul Jones interment ceremonies (below) at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, July 24, 1905. Laurence G. Claggett Collection, CBMM photographs, the lowly postcard was frequently used to send photos, far and wide. While postcards had been in use since they were invented in the 1860s as a quick way to exchange short messages by mail, in the United States the postcard was monopolized by the U.S. Postal Ser- vice from 1878 to 1898, according to the Smith- sonian Institution’s chronology of postcards. Only cards printed by and purchased from the Postal Ser- vice could be mailed in the country. In 1898, Con- gress passed a new law allowing “Private Mailing Cards” as long as they had a one-cent U.S. stamp affixed. At half the price of a regular envelope and letter, the public went for the bargain. What followed was the rapid evolution and use of the postcard that, by 1907, had begun to take its familiar shape and form. As the postcard evolved, so did its uses. A quick examination of the boxes that contain over 15,000 postcards given to CBMM by Dr. Laurence G. Claggett shows that postcards were used to record history, from fires, major and mi- nor, to parades and community events, and even as early forms of direct-mail advertising. The photos of the aftermath of the great fire of 1904, that destroyed 70 blocks of Baltimore, are some of the more dramatic postcards in the col- lection. The Claggett Collection also shows that timeliness was not always required when sending out postcards in the early 1900s. A colorized photograph on the front of a card entitled “Scene after the Big Fire, Baltimore, Md.” was sent to Flicksville, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 1913, nine years after the fire. The back of another card showing a fire en- gine crushed by a falling building during the fire was used as an advertising piece for a café that boasted “Pure wines and Liquors for family use.” The card also noted “Ladies Admitted.” The cards were used to mark major celebrations as well as document catastro- phes. Annapolis photographer Eugene W. Otto took pictures of the ceremonies surrounding the entombment of the body of John Paul Jones at the U.S. Naval Academy on July 24, 1904. A 1914 postcard shows a massive American flag and crowd gathered to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the writing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key in Baltimore harbor. An undated card printed in Germany shows the construc- tion of the new Naval Acad- emy chapel. It was postmarked 1905 and mailed from Annap- 32
33 olis to Manchester, New Hampshire. On the Eastern Shore, fire was also a popular sub- ject for postcards. Flames leap from a building in one entitled “FEDERAL ST DURING THE FIRE EASTON MD SEPT 6 09.” But in general, the East- ern Shore postcards tend to reflect a different pace and place than the western shore cards. The Easton High School football team posed on the steps of the Hanson Street school with a ball inscribed “Eastern Shore Championship by EHS ’09.” The Talbot County Fairgrounds, now the site of Idlewild Park in Easton, was a popular subject. Several cards in the Claggett Collection show details of the auto and horse races on the fairgrounds as well as shots of some of the livestock on display. The visit of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s yacht Potomac to Cambridge is frozen in time as it passes the drawbridge in downtown Cambridge. In Easton, the Shannahan & Wrightson Hardware Co. was an early adopter when it came to using postcards as advertis- ing vehicles. An undated card shows the arrival of an Avery tractor in Easton. In 1912, Shannahan & Wrightson published a card showing the arrival of a carload of brand-new Buicks at the Easton train station. That card was mailed from Easton to Denton that year. The only address was her friend’s name and “Denton, Caroline Co., Md.”
preparing to bring it back to St. Michaels the next day when the accident occurred. “A Shields (sailboat) left the dock under sail, got a puff of wind, its mainsheet caught, and it t-boned Mister Jim,” he says. The bow of the sailboat broke two planks just under the rail near the stern of Mister Jim. Work continues on the tugboat Delaware’s Gray Marine 671 diesel, and he says he expects it will be installed and powering the 1912 workhorse over the next few months. Scofield says the Apprentice for a Day program has made good progress on the Delaware ducker being built in the Boat Shop. “It’s coming along; she is out of the mold,” he says. “We are concentrating right now on the two Perry Cabin boats (rowing skiffs that were cus- tom-built for the Inn at Perry Cabin) and the two-masted crabbing skiff.” Barto says the major win- ter project for the Boat Yard crew will be the repairing of the deck of the nine-log bug- eye, Edna E. Lockwood. “That should take four to five months and should be a pretty high-profile project,” he says.
Barto says the floating fleet is in better shape than it has been in years. “I am very proud of the work we have done on the fleet,” he says. 34
this fall for a thorough cleaning, painting, and general going-over, says Vessel Maintenance Manager Marc Barto. He installed new chain plates to secure the rigging on the 1909 Vir- ginia crab dredger. Barto says that when the work on Old
completed a full cycle of repair work on all 10 vessels in CBMM’s floating fleet. “By next spring, for the first time in 10 years, all of the floating fleet will be work- ing mechanically, thanks to (Boat Yard Systems Specialist) James Boicourt,” Barto says. “That is important because we are using the boats more around the harbor,” he says. “It is good for people to see the boats moving.” Boat Yard Manager Rich Scofield says Boicourt also re- paired the old Ford six-cylinder flathead engine in the dory boat, getting it going for the first time in years. He says the Boat Yard crew had to make some unex- pected repairs to Mister Jim after a sailboat ran into it while the buyboat replica was tied to the dock in Oxford. He says Museum staffers had taken Mister Jim to Oxford for the fer- ryboat races on the Tred Avon on September 22, and were The Delaware ducker takes shape in the Boat Shop. Cliff Mumford and Tony Blake prep Old Point for a new paint job on the marine railway. 1. The Summer 2007 Mystery Photo is Somers Cove, Crisfield, Md. Richard Michael 2. The photo on this quarter’s magazine is of the Somers Cove Marina located in Crisfield. The photo was proba- bly taken sometime around 1965. The large yacht docked on the T-head was the governor’s yacht at the time.
3. The Mystery Photo on the back cover of the Summer 2007 issue shows the Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, Md. As the city turned control of the cove over to the state in 1979, I suspect the photo is from that time. There are a number of sedans and station wagons and people in light-colored clothing milling about, and more cars are coming in the road. I do not see any pickup trucks. I think there are two rows of chairs in the parking lot and some decorative flags hanging from the light poles. From the shadows I think it must be late in the morning. By the rake of the mast there appears to be a skipjack in the dock. The state skipjack Anna McGarvey was built in 1981. Is that her? Could this be a dedication cere- mony of some sort? For the marina? For the skipjack? I hope someone will be able to identify the yacht at the “T” pier. This feature is terrific—keep it coming. Many thanks. Ed Thieler 4. I think this is a photo of Crisfield, Maryland, look- ing almost directly East along Main Street. Of course, Somers Cove Marina has now built up most of the pic- tured area.
5. We are looking about northeast over Crisfield, Md., and looking over Somers Cove. It would be about 1960
Crisfield, c. 1965. Laurence G. Claggett Collection, CBMM to 1968 and the Governor’s yacht is the large vessel at the end of the pier in the center. Governor Tawes was from Crisfield.
We are over at Annapolis during the 1920s or 1930s near where the Halsey Field House now stands at the U.S. Naval Academy. This used to be a section of An- napolis known as Hell Point. We are looking southwest towards where the Annapolis Yacht Club now is. St. Mary’s Church is up on the hill on your right hand. In the foreground we see Bay freighters, some of which have carried lumber up from Virginia to Johnson’s Lumber, which was at the foot of Prince George Street. You can see a pile of lumber to the right. The vessels in the background are, of course, oyster dredge boats at the City Dock. I believe that the large number of vessels in harbor is because of ice in The Bay. We can see the shadows on the ice between the vessels. The vessel in the left of center foreground is a motorized bugeye. 6. Somers Cove at Crisfield, Md. Picture probably taken during the governorship of Millard Tawes. Philip R. Beigel, Severna Park, Md. 7. The Mystery Photo in the Summer 2007 WaterWays ap- pears to be Crisfield, Md.
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Can you identify this location? The answer and the names of the readers who get it right will appear in the winter issue of WaterWays. Send your answers by e-mail to editor@cbmm.org. Herman Hollerith, Jr. Collection, CBMM
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