Box 12
Container
Contains 3 Results:
“Scrap Book Number 3” Includes: Article about launch of boat named Jeff Davis in Florida [49:30] Article about Kate A. Sutton, head of Providence Tugboat Company and inspiration for movie Tugboat Annie (online sources say otherwise) [49:38] Obituaries for Joseph Coldwell, labor activist [49:44-47] Full-page titled “Birth of a PT”, Feb 27, 1944 [49:50] Article about World War II military slang, Feb 4, 1944 [50:69] Profile of Leonard M. Fowle, father of Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes scrapbooks related to boating as well as a variety of other topics. Included are clippings from multiple publications, photographs, and correspondence. The materials are not restricted to Rhode Island topics.
Dates:
1921 - 1955
“Scrap Book Number 4” Includes: Table of contents Five of a series of six 1935 Rhode Island waterfront scenes (Old Fishermen’s Village, Pawtuxet; Old Scalloptown at East Greenwich; Along the shorefront at Apponaug; Apponaug; and Lobster Docks, Stonington) drawn by Whitman Bailey and published in a newspaper [51:3,7,8] Columns on boating by Boake Carter, late 1930s [51:29,30,47,48] Article with illustration about the origins of the Block Island double-ended fishing boat aka the Blocker Islander [52:73-75] “The World’s Craziest Sailors” article in Collier’s, March 1, 1947 with typed notes “Hole’s in Collier’s Frostbite story” [52:107-110] Photographs of yachts and ships [52:135-end of folder]
File — Box: 12, Folder: 52-53
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes scrapbooks related to boating as well as a variety of other topics. Included are clippings from multiple publications, photographs, and correspondence. The materials are not restricted to Rhode Island topics.
Dates:
1921 - 1955
“Herreshoff History” Typed pages and printed material (much not attached to scrapbook pages) including 43-page booklet titled “Voluntary Liquidation Sale by Absolute Auction of the Plant of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Inc.” (1924)
File — Box: 12, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes scrapbooks related to boating as well as a variety of other topics. Included are clippings from multiple publications, photographs, and correspondence. The materials are not restricted to Rhode Island topics.
Dates:
1921 - 1955