Adventures of the Blackgang
Thalassophilia, Nautical History, Culture, and Art
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on Shorpy
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Salvaged from watery depths, the sunken treasures from a pair of shipwrecks lay underwater for hundreds of years before being acquired by the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
Now, these artifacts, including a pair of massive 12th-century stone statues and a trove of blue and white ceramics, will star in “Lost at Sea: Art Recovered From Shipwrecks,” a new exhibition drawn exclusively from the museum’s collection.
A New Exhibition of Artworks Recovered From Shipwrecks Reveals Some Fascinating—and Troubling—Histories on artnet.com
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Portland, Maine - Sailors marching past Megquier & Jones Iron Works at 41 Pearl Street; July 7, 1908. Note Arthur M Hannaford Market Grocers sign far right.
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Ayer’s Hair Vigor (1896)
Not Glossy and Loving It! • An appreciation of vintage matte color printing
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Chinese Cigarette Card - Feng Li Cigarettes
Toa Tobacco Co, issued in the 1920’s
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Baltimore, U.S.A.: 1943
“Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where this Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. Douglass, the noted orator and abolitionist leader, worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dockhouse is rivet heater Willie Smith.” 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Roger Smith for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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How to Identify Traditional British Fishing Boats
Britain’s coastlines are dotted with cobles and fifies, prawners and smacks – but which boat is which? Here is our identification guide to traditional fishing boats
via Simon
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North Star at Henkel’s Elevator on the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, circa 1905
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On this day we remember the tragedy of the SS Eastland disaster. The S.S. Eastland, known as the “Speed Queen of the Great Lakes,” was part of a fleet of five excursion boats assigned to take Western Electric employees, families and friends across Lake Michigan to Michigan City, Indiana, for a day of fun. But the trip quickly turned tragic and resulted in the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
The Eastland, docked at the Clark Street Bridge, never left the Chicago River. Tragedy struck on July 24, 1915 when the ship rolled over into the river at the wharf’s edge. More than 2,500 passengers and crew members were on board that day – and 844 people lost their lives, including 22 entire families.
For more detailed information visit http://www.eastlanddisaster.org/
Images from the Eastland Disaster Historical Society.
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Ferdinand Horvath Merbabies King Neptune Concept Painting Original Art (Walt Disney, 1938)
This Silly Symphonies short was a collaboration between Disney Studios and the Harman and Ising studio, as the latter had contributed artists to the production of Snow White for Disney. If was one of the last of the Silly Symphonies shorts, and it was the first and only Disney cartoon short produced by an outside studio.
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“He abandoned education at 16 for the sea, scrubbing decks on freighters for a year. Stints as an electrician and a carpenter followed, and he briefly enrolled at acting school before being expelled for missing classes…”
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–The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg (detail), showing various installations with smoking chimneys and large groups of workmen — Source.
The Myth of Blubber Town, an Arctic Metropolis - Though the 17th-century whaling station of Smeerenburg was in reality, at its height, just a few dwellings and structures for processing blubber, over the decades and centuries a more extravagant picture took hold — that there once had stood, defying its far-flung Arctic location, a bustling urban centre complete with bakeries, churches, gambling dens, and brothels. Matthew H. Birkhold explores the legend.
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Peter Alsen Raku Pottery – Blobfish
Oregon Coast Galleries